152 pmsroN i. vektebkal a^xijials. — class i. siammalia. 



In the mean time, some persons were nppreliended on suspicion of being 

 the murderers, and it was resolved to lead liiem into the apartment. Before 

 the cat got sight of them, when she only heard their footsteps approaching, 

 her eyes iiaslicd with increased i'ury, her hair stood erect, and so soon as she 

 saw them enter tlie apartment she sprang towards them with expressions of 

 the most violent rage, but did not venture to attack them, jji'oljaMy afraid 

 of the nuinl.)crs tiiat followed. Having turned several times towards tlieni 

 ^^•ith a peculiar ferocity of aspect, she crept into a corner, with a mien in- 

 dicati\e iif the deepest melancholy. This heha\ior of the cat astonished 

 every one present. The effect «liicli it produced upon the murderers was 

 such as ahiid^t amounted to an acluiowh'dgment of their guilt. Knr did 

 this remain lung doulitfnl, for a train of accessory circumstances was soon 

 discovered, which jiroved it to a complete conviction. 



Till'. Cat that xri;sKi) a CiikuvEX. — In tlie summer of 17112, a gen- 

 tleman who li\('<l in the ncighljorhood of Portsmouth, England, had a cat 

 which had a litter of kittens four or fn'c days after a hen had l)rought out a 

 brood of ciiickcns. As he did not wish to keep more than one c;it at a. 

 time, the kittens were all drowned, and the same day the cat and one 

 chicken were missing. Diligent search was immediately made in every 

 place tl'.at could be tiiouglit of, both in and out of the house, to no purpose ; 

 it was tjicn condudcil that some mischance had befallen both. Four davs 

 afterwards, however, the servant, having occasion to go into an tmfre- 

 qncntcd part of the cellar, discovered, to iiis great astonishment, the cat 

 lying in one corner, with tlie clii' ken hugged close to her l.iodv, aixl one 

 ])aw laid over it, as if to prescrxe it from injury. Tiie cat an<l adopted 

 chicken were brought into a closet in the kitchen, wlicre they continued 

 sonu^ days, the cat treating the el!i<'keu in every respect as a kitten. AMten- 

 cver the chicken left t!ie cat to eat, she appeared very uneasy; but, on its 

 return, she received it with the allecii(jn of n mother, pressed it to her body, 

 pm-red, and seemed perfectly ha]ipy. If the chicken was carried to the 

 hen, it innnediatcly returned to the cat. Hie chicken was by some accident 

 killed, and tlie eat would not cat I'or several days afterwards, being incon- 

 solable for its loss. 



TiiK Cat axi> her Dog Pet. — "I had," says ]M. Wenzcl, "a cat and 

 dog which became so attached to each other that they would never willingly 

 be asunder. Whenever the dog got an)' choice morsel of food, he was 

 sure to divide it with his whiskered friend. Tiicy always ate sociably out 

 of one plate, slc[it in the same bed, and daily walked out together. Wish- 

 ing to put this apparently sincere friendship to the proof, I one day took the 

 cat by herself into my room, while I had the dog guarded in another apart- 

 ment. I entertained the cat in a most siunptuous manner, being desirous 



