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of another day or so, the retriever came 

 in with the canary in his mouth, carrying it 

 most delicately, and went up to the owner 

 of the bird, delivering it into her hands 

 without even the feathers being injured. 

 Surely nothing could illustrate more beauti- 

 fully faithful love and gentleness in a dog 

 than this. 



E. TILL. 



CAT-AND-DOG LOVE. 



{April 13, 1878.] 



WOULD you allow me, as a cat fancier of 

 nearly thirty years' standing, to corroborate, 

 by a personal experience, Mr. Balfour's 

 testimony in your last issue to the possibility 

 of a genuine attachment between a cat and 

 a dog? A few weeks ago, I called upon 

 a bachelor friend who has two pets, a hand- 

 some black female cat, of the name of Kate, 

 and a bright little terrier, responding to the 

 call of David. My friend assured me that 

 they lived on the most affectionate terms. 

 They were certainly not demonstrative, but 

 they were importations from Scotland, and 

 refrained from " spooning " before folk. The 



