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his shoulder, and sometimes if he saw a dog coming along, 

 particularly if alone, to let the cat down on its back ; in 

 nineteen cases out of twenty the dog, thus taken by 

 surprise, would run away howling, but one day he made a 

 mistake in his customer, jerked the cat on to a well-bred 

 bull terrier that was passing, who at once threw it off its 

 back and killed it in a few minutes. 



The barber found out the owner of the dog and sued 

 him for the value of his cat, but it was proved not only 

 that the cat was the aggressor, but that it had been done 

 many times before, and the case was given against the 

 barber, with costs. 



I remember my friend, R. H. Moore, the well-known 

 animal painter, telling me of an incident which occurred 

 to him. 



He was out in his own neighbourhood, and being, as 

 one can see from his pictures, a keen lover of animals, had 

 one of his dogs, a Scottish terrier, with him. 



When he went into a shop the woman said he had 

 better look out for his dog, as her cat was a terror to all 

 the dogs in the district. My friend told her he was not at 

 all anxious about his dog, who would take her own part 

 in the general way. 



Presently the cat made a rush for the dog, and jumped 

 on her back ; she looked rather nonplussed for a moment 

 as the attack was unexpected, but then she quickly 

 reversed the order of affairs, the cat was on its back and 

 the dog standing over it, and its days would have been 

 ended then and there but for my friend's interference. 



He kindly gave me the rough pencil sketches he made 



