288 Animal Life 
Tne mention of Greyhounds will appro- 
priately admit of the insertion 
of the following anecdote, which 
has been sent to us for publi- 
cation by Mr. Glynn Grylls, of Woolwich, 
who vouches for the truth of the story. 
He writes :—“‘ When in India before coming 
home on leave, said my informant, ‘I 
kept a number of very good greyhounds. 
One of the lady-dogs presented me with a 
litter of ten pups in the middle of the very 
hottest part of the summer. To make her 
as comfortable as possible we took her into 
the house and gave her one of the bath- 
rooms to live in. One very hot night—the 
hottest we had had—I woke up and heard her 
moving about. I got up to see what was the 
matter, and found that she had carried all 
her pups from the bathroom she occupied 
through the dining-room, drawing-room, two 
bedrooms, into my room, and had placed 
them under the punkah which was working 
An Intelligent 
Greyhound. 
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. Reid, Wishaw, N.B. 
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there, so that they might get the benefit 
of the air-current produced.’ ” 
We have received the following communica- 
tion from a correspondent who 
A ane signs himself “ Ivanovitch,” 
and writes from London: 
“January 12th, 1903.—Dear Sir, I should 
like to bring under your notice the rather 
strange conduct of a cat belonging to a friend 
of mine. The animal in question is usually a 
very retiring and timid animal, even for a cat, 
but she has taken an unaccountable dislike to 
a boy who visits at my friend’s house. She 
spits and growls at him whenever he happens 
to be in the same room with her, and, on at 
least one occasion, has attacked him, although 
several people were present at the time. 
This is the first instance I have heard of a 
cat behaving in this manner, and I should 
be pleased to learn if any of your readers 
know of a similar occurrence. I presume the 
boy must have been ill-using the animal.” 
NEW ZEALAND. 
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