172 RABBITS, CATS, AND CAVIES 



THE SHORT-HAIRED SILVER TABBY CAT 



Although it is very rare to see specimens of this 

 variety attain great size, I think they are very pretty 

 animals, and generally admired. 



I think I have had more of them than anyone else I 

 remember, in the South or West of England, and for 

 many years could bench or pen the best team of the 

 colour probably ever seen in the possession of one owner, 

 comprising a champion of each sex, and three or four 

 runners up. 



I won scores of prizes with those at all the best shows, 

 and there were no short-haired cats better known ; one 

 of them, a female, own sister to Mrs George Herring's 

 Jimmy, was, I should imagine, the best female short-haired 

 cat ever exhibited. 



Her brother was a very handsome cat, took numerous 

 prizes, and was the only cat I remember taking the Gold 

 Medal of the National Cat Club, at the Crystal Palace 

 Show, as c< best Cat, Long or Short-haired," in the show. 



On several occasions his sister was put over him, and 

 it was always a close thing between them, but they were 

 both so good, it was almost a case of condition. 



Miss Moore had a nice female, Jenny, who was 

 put over mine once or twice, I think they were aunt and 

 niece, but she was nothing like so correct in points, nor 

 did she show herself off so well. 



I think Champion Jimmy, Miss Moore's Jenny, and my 

 own Laurel King, who was her son and a champion like her- 

 self, were the only three "in the same street" with Champion 



