36 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



when he feeds hew his tail goes and his eyes 

 pour out thankfulness ! At every mouthful he 

 looks up to show his gratitude. We will venture 

 to say that few Christians feel a livelier sense of 

 devotion at their meals. If he indulges in any 

 mirth at his dinner, it is all of a grateful order. 

 The hand which feeds him is his divinity, and, 

 of course, he looks no higher in returning his 

 thanks. 



Turn now to his distant connexion, the cat. 

 How she growls, like a tiger over its prey ! Mark 

 how she gorges, only purring and looking with 

 fierce eyes for more when the last morsel is 

 finished. After that, she washes her whiskers 

 with a world-wise air, and the entire line of Adam 

 is nothing to her until she grows hungry again. 



There is a deal of point, after all, in the juve- 

 nile line : 



"Behold Miss Pussy! how happy she looks!" 



We have a sort of reverence for the authority 

 of the little book quoted from. 



It is ever associated in our mind with the per- 

 son of a deceased old lady, who, we believe, led 

 half the people in the district in which we were 

 born, through its pictured pages. 



It will not do, gentle reader, to cavil at its 

 couplets. If Grimalkin is happy, as the learned 



