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fond of me, until I was entirely supplanted in 

 his affections by the butler. Even then we were 

 very good friends so long as the butler was not 

 in the room, but the moment he made his ap- 

 pearance, the bird seemed to be seized with a 

 feeling of the greatest possible hostility towards 

 me, attempting to bite me, and shewing his ani- 

 mosity in a most decided manner. On these oc- 

 casions I generally abstained from putting my 

 fingers too close to him, but once, having on a 

 thick velveteen shooting-coat, besides shirt and 

 flannel-waiscoat, I thought I might venture to 

 test his disposition by offering him my arm in 

 an amicable manner. Had the butler not been 

 there, he would at once have come on it, but, as 

 it was, he soon set all doubt at rest, by taking a 

 piece clean out of coat, shirt, flannel- waistcoat and 

 arm at one fell bite. 



A Kitten once attached herself to me in a 

 manner which was certainly very remarkable, par- 

 ticularly as I do not remember ever to have cul- 

 tivated her affections by any other means than 

 those of simple kindness and attention. 



The place where she was supposed to live of 

 a morning was a room appropriated to the lady's- 

 maid, lying beyond a back-staircase, by which I 



