194 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 



4:6th day. Eats 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. 



4^th 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. 



49^ 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 dear leap. 

 51st day. The kitten climbs from my chair up my 

 back, and rests on my shoulder. 



