230 OUR HOME PETS 



larger cities will mercifully dispose of incon- 

 venient pets, there is now, at least in New 

 York, a summer boarding-house for cats, and 

 almost every family knows some person who 

 would gladly care for the animal through the 

 summer for so small a sum as twenty -five 

 cents per week. It fairly rends the heart of 

 a friend of the gentle beast to see the home- 

 less, suffering, starved specimens of cathood 

 that haunt the area doors and the back yards, 

 half dead and wholly wretched, through the 

 summer months of rest and travel. 



