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the maid that she might now proceed to 

 bury them, that they were past intelligent 

 treatment. He treats the remaining and 

 living kitten with the indifference of the 

 scientific for the normal. 



L. H. 



A CANINE NURSE. 



[May 1 8, 1895.] 



BEING a frequent reader of anecdotes of the 

 sagacity of animals in your paper, I think 

 you may consider the following trait of 

 character in a dog worthy of notice. Jack, 

 a rough-haired fox-terrier of quiet disposition, 

 but a good ratter, and an inveterate enemy 

 to strange or neighbouring cats, of whom, 

 to my sorrow, he has slain at least one, 

 became without effort the attached friend 

 of a minute kitten introduced into the house 

 last November. This friendship has been 

 continued without intermission, and is re- 

 ciprocated by the now full-grown cat. She, 

 unfortunately, got caught in a rabbit-trap not 

 long ago, but escaped with no further injury 

 than a lacerated paw, which for some time 



