116 Reason or Instinct. 



but to call to the child until he woke and came away. Poor 

 dog ! I suppose he had a bad name and wanted a friend — 

 what an old, old story that has been in real life with many 

 outcasts. 



Now for my cats : the Deuce, a jet-black Tom, only 

 remains. Beelzebub, the wickedest black Tom I ever saw, 

 was probably killed by someone for bad manners, for he was 

 a thorough blackguard, though friendly with me. When 

 they were both alive, the Deuce always came in to dinner 

 at seven, and Beelzebub at nine o'clock to tea ; and on a 

 Sunday Beelzebub came punctually at five o'clock to 

 afternoon tea, and the Deuce came at nine o'clock to 

 supper ; they never came together, and were punctual to a 

 moment, and they did not come from the kitchen, following 

 a servant, but turned up promiscuously of their own accord. 

 The funniest things I ever saw in the cat world was when 

 a friend of mine brought home a small monkey from the 

 Brazils ; it was very tame, and lived in a cage in the dining- 

 room. My then cat — of the pre-Deuce era — a she-cat with 

 a kitten, came in at breakfast-time and saw the monkey ; 

 up went her tail like a furze-bush, and she stood on the 

 tips of her claws, her kitten doing ditto ; they backed out 

 and fetched the stable cat, and the three proceeded in 

 Indian file to interview the monkey ; and at last the fore- 

 most cat tapped the monkey's paw, and in a second master 

 Jacko nailed the cat, with his teeth meeting well in her 

 paw. I think reason steps in in a case of this kind^ when 

 the cat went and fetched the stable cat, which had never been 

 in the house before, and was, in fact, only on bowing terms 

 with the family. One more word, though, about dogs. A 

 neighbour of mine, who has a trout stream, is generally 

 accompanied by his dog Moses, a large brown retriever, who 

 has taken strongly to the sport. If his master hooks a 

 trout he is in wild excitement whilst he is playing it, and is 



