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This time the mother growled still more 
threateningly, followed us again; but this 
time she seized the kitten by the tail instead 
of the neck, evidently as a punishment, and 
pulled it roughly along, the kitten mewing 
helplessly. For the third time I called, and 
once more it came to me; but this time the 
mother was silent. She came, took up the 
kitten, dragged it off, and then began to 
bite 1t again and again in order to secure 
its obedience. This method was successful, 
and the next time I called, it was in vain.” 
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ANOTHER coxrespondent tells the following ~ ae Ga, 
4qik- “Wing Clinkie.” 
The Cat TeW and strik King 
and ing story :—“ A 
the Frogs. naturalist in 
Aberdeen has a cat which, 
for her many funny tricks, 
he highly prizes. The 
savant keeps many creatures 
in his museum, and among 
them a tubful of frogs in 
about four inches of water, 
with projecting bricks on 
which they can come up and 
sit. Almost every day the 
cat seats herself by the 
water in the orthodox cat 
attitude, and, haying  col- 
lected the frogs in a huddle 
before her, she amuses her- 
self with thei gambols. If 
any of the little reptiles get rts ; 
out of proper view, she "THREE WELL-KNOWN CHAMPIONS: 
gently touches it into position “Katzenjammer,’’ “ Bonhaki,”’ and ‘Sedgemere Peaty.” 
with her paw and thus keeps her actors on 
the stage. She will often sit for half-an- 
hour mentally smiling at the frolics of these 
agile acrobats.” 
Dy 
THE island of Java, the pearl of the Dutch 
Hast Indies, is the home of 
Snakes. the Anaconda. The one shown 
in our illustration was found 
near Batavia, quietly digesting a wild boar 
which it had caught and swallowed. The, 
wild boars of Java, which are found in 
great numbers, are very much smaller than ‘ 
European boars, and are easily overpowered 5 AUSTRALIAN CAT. 
