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fruit. The character of the red tabby is good, 

 and his intelligence fully up to the average of 

 the short-haired. 



The silver tabby is the beauty of his branch 

 of the cat family, with black stripes on light 

 blue or very pale Maltese color. Sometimes 

 the stripes are dark gray on a shining silvery- 

 gray ground, and a cat thus colored is very 

 beautiful. He is rather small of his kind, but 

 is very alert and intelligent. 



Another variety of this group is called the 

 leopard tabby, being spotted instead of striped, 

 and rejoicing in topaz eyes. One of the most 

 attractive cats, seen now and then, seems to 

 be a mixture of the striped and the spotted, 

 and for this reason, I suppose, he has no name, 

 and no regular place in the list. But for the 

 home, and as an ornament, he is far ahead of 

 all others except the silver tabby. He is very 

 dark gray and pure black in large spots, sur- 

 rounded by broken stripes in a way that can 

 hardly be described, but is exceedingly rich 

 and beautiful. 



In all the tabby family, white or any mixt- 

 ure, as of the spots and the stripes just men- 

 tioned, is considered undesirable, from a cat- 



