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tamed by any creature, be it man, beast, or 

 bird, who has once learned to crouch in ter- 

 ror, and to fear a harsh tone or an uplifted 

 hand." And, further, ''the fearless, confiding 

 movements, the clear, open glance, and intelli- 

 gent expression of a well -treated cat are so 

 different from the furtive, scared look of a poor 

 animal that is hunted about and kicked out of 

 the way, that the two seem hardly to belong 

 to the same species. The wild savage, whose 

 education is a perpetual distrust of every- 

 body and everything, is not more unlike the 

 high-born and accomplished European gentle- 

 man than an ill-used cat unlike one treated 

 kindly." 



Their confidence won, the individuality of 

 cats is marked ; they differ as greatly as chil- 

 dren, and should be treated accordingly. I 

 had in my home at one time two cats so nearly 

 alike that without seeing the face and its ex- 

 pression they could not be told apart. They 

 were Maltese, with silvery tips to their ex- 

 quisite fur. One was emphatically an aristo- 

 crat, who lived in the parlor, slept by prefer- 

 ence on a satin-covered mantel, and was most 

 dainty in her tastes and manners ; the other, 



