Cats 



There is a propensity belonging to common house 

 cats that is very remarkable : I mean their violent 

 fondness for fish, which appears to be their most favourite food. 

 And yet nature, in this instance, seems to have planted in them an 

 appetite that, unassisted, they know not how to gratify. For, of all 

 quadrupeds, cats are the least disposed towards water ; and will not, 

 when they can avoid it, deign to wet a foot, much less to plunge 

 into that element G. W. 



