OEDER V. THE CAIiXIVdIJA. l.'io 



to see wli.it sort, of a mcnl slie would make wiiliout Iicr friend, wlio liad 

 liitherto been her constant taljle companion. The cat enjoyed the treat witli 

 wreat n-lcc, and seemed to have entirelv forirotten tlic doir. 1 had had a 

 partridij'e for dinner, half of which 1 intended to keep for supper. I\Iy 

 wife covered it with a plate, and put it into a cujiboard, the door of which 

 she did not lock. The eat left the room, and I walked out upon business. 

 j\Iy wife, meanwhile, sat at work in an adj(jinini^- a[>artment. 



" \\'hcn I returned liumc, she related to me the following; circumstances : 

 The cat, haviny hai^^tilv left the dining-room, went to the dug, and mewed 

 uncommonly loud, and in different tones of voice, which the dog, from time 

 to time, answered with a short bark. They then went both to the door of 

 the room where the cat had dined, and waited till it was opened. ()ne of mv 

 children opened the door, and immediately the two friends entered the apart- 

 ment. The mewing of the cat excited my wife's attention. She rose from 

 her seat, and stcp[)ed softly up to the door, which stood .'ijiir, to observe 

 what was going on. The cat led the dog to the cupboard which contained 

 the partridge, pushed olf the plate which covered it, and, taking out my 

 intended supper, laid it before her canine friend, who de\-oured it greedily. 

 Probably the cat, by her mewing, had given the dog to tniderstand what an 

 excellent raeal she had made, and how sorry she was that he had not par- 

 ticipated in it, fait, at the saine time, had given him to understand that 

 something was left for h.im in the caplmard, and persuaded him to follow 

 her thither. Since that time I have jiaid particular attention to these ani- 

 mals, and am perfectly convinced that they communicate to each other what- 

 ever seems interesting to cither."' 



A Cat's Stkatageii. — A cat belonging to an elderly lady in Bath, Eng- 

 land, was So attached to her mistress, that she would pass the night in her 

 bed-ehamber, wliich was in the fourth story. Outside the window was the 

 parapet wall, on which the lady often strewed crumbs for the sparrows that 

 came to 2'>artake of them. The lady always sleeping with her window open, 

 the cat would pounce upon the birds and kill them. One morning, giving a 

 "longing lingering look "' at the top of the wall, and seeing it free from 

 crumbs, she was at a loss for an expedient to decoy the feathered tribe, 

 when, reconnoitring, she discovered a small bunch of wheat suspended in 

 the room, which she sprang at, and succeeded in getting down. She 

 then carried it to the favorite resort of the sparrows, and actually 

 threshed the corn out by beating iC on the wall, then hiding herself. 

 After a while the birds came, and she resumed her favorite sport of 

 killing the dupes of her sagacity. 



The Uxxatui;al jNIother. — A cat belonging to a gentleman of Shef- 

 field, England, carried her notions of beauty so ftxr that she would not con- 

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