194 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 
46th day.—Kats for the first time to-day small piece 
of cooked meat and potato; licks the plate on which it 
is, and seems to like the food very much. 
Acts with a dead mouse as before. 
Plays with its mother so violently that the latter 
seizes it and holds it down. 
47th day.—A piece of catnip that affects mature cats 
so peculiarly, produces no such effects on the kitten, 
which seems rather to dislike the smell. 
48th day.—Full of an apparently reckless activity. 
Climbs up and down chairs, etc., with great vim and 
rapidity, but never falls. When tired, sleeps, and 
leeps long. 
Meat is offered to-day. Smells at it, but does not 
eat till a small piece is placed in its mouth, when it 
eats with apparent relish all placed before it. 
When on the table a spool falls to the floor. In an 
instant the kitten leaps from the table to my wife’s lap, 
and thence to the floor. In its play runs behind the 
book-shelf, and rushes out at its mother from behind 
the curtain again and again. 
49th day.—Catches flies on the window; takes no 
notice of dead flies. 
When engaged in this sport it upsets a vessel con- 
taining a little milk, and is so startled by this that it 
rushes down at once with a peculiar expression on its 
face. 
50th day.—When we are at dinner to-day the kitten 
runs into the dining-room on the flat below its home. 
Since this long wandering from home it is difficult to 
keep it in the study, as it wishes to be here, there, and 
everywhere, maintaining ceaseless activity when not 
asleep. 
Jumps from the table to the floor by one clear leap. 
51st day—The kitten climbs from my chair up my 
back, and rests on my shoulder. 
