JAVA CAT. 



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rather gets into a temper which is of a bad 

 description. It then snaps ferociously at the 

 finger placed near it, but its young teeth can 

 make but little impression ; it is in downright 

 earnest, however, for it bristles up and advances 

 its long whiskers, uttering a series of peevish 

 cries and growls. 



It was lying upon the pillow of my bed one 

 morning, when I took the creature off, and 

 placed it upon as soft a place which had been 

 made up in the cabin on purpose for it ; but this 

 would not do ; it did not like the removal, and 

 there was no termination to its peevish, fretful 

 cries, until it was removed back to the old place, 

 where being deposited, after licking itself about 

 those parts of its furred coat that had been 

 ruffled by handling, it stretched itself, and laid 

 down quite contented. 



The squeaking, discontented noise of the 

 creature during the night, when it is tied up, 

 is very annoying. I suppose the desire of mak- 

 ing nocturnal rambles, as is the nature of the 

 tribe, was the cause to which the cries were to 

 be attributed. 



At last I used to give it fowl bones at night 

 to amuse itself, and being occupied in crunching 

 them, I was no more annoyed by its nocturnal 

 cries. 



