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room. Hearing two voices, lie discovered that she had 

 brought down one of her kittens from the garret, and 

 lodged it there for safety, of which she had evidently 

 wished Pincher to take charge. Having, however, con- 

 fided this little one to her new friend, she hastened up 

 stairs. He then followed her with the kitten, placed it 

 beside her, moved their little bed further from the 

 windows through which the lightning had flashed so 

 vividly as to occasion her alarm, and remained there till 

 the storm subsided, and all was calm. 



On the following morning, much to his surprise, this 

 gentleman, who knew the cat was always in the habit of 

 going down to breakfast with the lady of the house, 

 found her waiting for him at the door of his apartment. 

 She had resisted all the caresses of her mistress to 

 induce her to leave it, accompanied him down stairs, 

 sat by him during breakfast with all the attention she 

 could display, and then returned to her family. What 

 could she have done more to express her feeling, one 

 unhappily so rare among human kind gratitude ? 



Of the care of this animal for her young, the follow- 

 ing is another singular instance. A lady residing in 

 Glasgow, had a handsome cat sent to her from Edin- 

 burgh, conveyed in a close basket, placed in a carriage. 

 She was carefully watched for two months, but having 



