262 RABBITS, CATS, AND CAVIES 



and take up a position in one of the trees overlooking 

 the road, and there patiently await his return. Once 

 he was in sight she was happy. 



Strange as the affection of this animal was, it was 

 none the less extraordinary that she should come to a 

 strange house, where all except one was quite new to her, 

 yet never for an instant appeared lost or perplexed. 



She made herself a favourite with one and all, and at 

 the end of her friend's visit was sent back to her master's 

 house, where she at once fell into her old habits, probably 

 living in hopes some day again of seeing her old friend. 



The following is an extract from an interesting article 

 which appeared on cats in an old number of the Illustrated 

 London News, and shows not only that there are grades 

 in cat society, but that they can, as I have often noticed 

 amongst dogs, recognise days and the voices of people in 

 whom they are interested : 



" A not uncommon phrase in households is that of the 

 * parlour cat ' and the * kitchen cat,' and I believe it to 

 be an undoubted fact that there are differences in the 

 character of the creatures, which somehow prompt the 

 one to seek the cheerful light and talk of a sitting-room, 

 and the other rather to brood and nestle in the gloomier 

 but warmer regions below. 



" The one is always seen conspicuously on the rug or 

 stretched upon the footstool ; the other making casual 

 appearance on the stairs and flying like a spectre on the 

 approach of anyone but the cook. 



" The one creature seems to have a sort of aristocracy 

 in its nature, and it is all but uniformly the handsomer 



