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of generosity and hospitality, a practical and useful ex- 

 pression of sympathy. Nor is this kind of benevolence 

 peculiar to cats or others of the inferior animals, so called. 

 It is so common in lordly man to be generous with other 

 people's goods or money ! Whether, however, either in men 

 or cats, the end justifies the means in such forms of kind- 

 ness, is a subtle question we willingly leave to the moralist 

 or the theologian. 



