202 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



he was shut up accidentally in the same room with 

 a large and savage cat. He was found sitting up, 

 with teeth and claws ready, and was perfectly 

 overjoyed when his human friends took him 

 up. Though six months have elapsed, nothing will 

 induce him to enter that room again. Our dogs 

 are perfect friends with him. He uses his left paw 

 always when drinking, 'ladling' the water up to 

 his mouth, even from the bottom of a tumbler, and 

 is quite ' left-handed.' " 



The following account relating to one of the 

 same species of bird is curious, and interested 

 Mr. Morris greatly at the time. This bird 

 was brought to him by a neighbour one 

 evening in the winter of 1873, and gave rise to 

 an interesting correspondence. Shortly before 

 Christmas in that year a large annual party was 

 given at Nunburnholme, to which several of the 

 neighbouring clergy and others were invited, and 

 among them a young clerical friend and his wife, 

 who lived some six or seven miles off. On his 

 arrival he said that he had brought the rector of 

 Nunburnholme a Kestrel which had flown to his 

 window only a short time before he left home. He 

 thought it must be a tame one, as it seemed quiet 

 and showed no inclination to fly away. Without 

 delay Mr. Morris opened the basket, and found 

 the bird to be very tame, for it suffered him to 

 stroke it without its attempting to bite or claw him. 

 It was, however, very light in weight, and before 

 attending to his other guests he, with characteristic 



