LETTER XXtT. 



Around in sympathetic mirtk 

 its tricks the kilten tries. 



CTOLDSMITH. 



SIR, 



I RESUME the pen to fulfil m> promise of afford- 

 ing you new pleasure in exhibiting to your view a 

 novel and curious scene; and must call your attention 

 to a numerous, ferocious, and sanguinary tribe, en~ 

 gaged in unceasing hostilities against man, and against 

 all those animals that are in alliance with him, and 

 under his dominion and protection. This numerous 

 and ferocious race, which by most naturalists is deno- 

 minated 



THE CAT KIND, . 



Is distinguished by their formidable claws, which are 

 capable of being drawn in. or extended at. pleasure. 

 They lead a solitary life, prowling about for prey, 

 and, instead of uniting in herds like the herbivorous 

 kinds, they ramble about, alone in search of food, and 

 are generally enemies to one another. Although 

 greatly differing in size and in colour, they -all corre- 

 spond in form and indisposition: they are equally 

 fierce and rapacious, and all of them carnivorous; the 

 common cat, through habits of domestication, is brought 

 to eat farinaceous tbod, but never prefers it; and all 



other animals of the cat kind refuse the aliment that 



Ls not tinged with blood. 



I shall, my dear Sir, begin my description of this 



race with this common domestic animal the cat, the 



only one of the tribe that has been taken under hu- 



man protection. 



THE CAT, 



is, when young, of all animals the most sportive and 

 playful, but as its years increase, it begins to grow 

 more serious, and also more artful. 



Any description of an animal so universally known; 

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