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postponed. If the young cat can be held 

 back until after a year old, it allows full 

 time for development; but after nine months 

 of age it often does a healthy, strong queen 

 more harm to fret and fidget than to assume 

 the strain of maternity. Therefore, individ- 

 ual cases must determine the most desirable 

 age. 



The usual litter four kittens are too 

 many for any puss mother to nourish well; 

 so, as Persians are too valuable to be con- 

 signed to a watery grave, a foster-mother 

 should be arranged for. This is an easy 

 matter if you have plenty of cats about the 

 farm buildings. We bought a tiger kitten 

 as a playfellow for our first Persian. They in- 

 variably have kittens about the same time, 

 and Tabitha adopts the Persians as a 

 matter of course, Kliner relinquishing the 

 care of her babies with all the indifference 

 of a fashionable beauty, until they become 

 interestingly pretty. Then my lady secsms 

 to take a mother's pride in them. 



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