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dress, such as the man wears who braves the dangers 

 of the tank at the Polytechnic. 



Seriously speaking, a lady who is kind to her 

 domestic pets will have no trouble in giving them 

 medicine. When they are Kittens, they should be 

 taught to lie upon their backs, and in this attitude, 

 with the head raised, the physic is easily enough 

 administered. A sick Cat, too, does not fly from 

 those for whom it has an affection ; on the contrary, 

 I have always known Cats to come for sympathy to 

 those who nurse and feed them. Administer the 

 physic with a teaspoon, if liquid, and be most care- 

 ful when the dose has been given, to gently wash 

 from the Cat's face or breast any drop of the stuff 

 that may have fallen there, so that she may not find 

 the nasty taste lingering about her when she goes to 

 clean herself, as otherwise she has the unpleasant- 

 ness of the physic long after the doses have been 

 discontinued. 



These are some of the complaints from which 

 Cats suffer, and the best methods to be adopted for 

 their cure : — 



A cat is sometimes affected by a sort of dis- 

 temper which attacks it between the first and third 

 month of its life. The Cat or Kitten, when thus 

 suffering, refuses its ood, seems to be sensitive 



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