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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



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ir sympathies, they are chiefly 

 warmth and sunlight. Some 

 years ago the present king of 

 England, then Prince of Wales, 

 walking one day in the streets 

 of London with his tutor, made 

 a bet with the latter as to who 

 would count the greatest num- 

 ber of cats, each to take one 

 side of the street. Presently 

 the tutor had counted a dozen, 

 while the prince had not seen 

 one, he ha\'ing chosen the shady 

 side of the street, and all the 

 cats were on the other side 

 basking in the sun. 



The whole feline race seems 

 to have a predilection for the 

 odor of certain plants, among 

 others catnip, mint, and vale- 

 rian, which certainly exercise 

 some sort of magnetism upon 

 them. In Germany these herbs 

 are often used to attract and 

 cajjture destructixe wild cats. 

 According to Blasius, mint in- 

 toxicates cats, after exciting 

 them to frenzied gaN'et)'. When 

 an animal thus overstimulated 

 is put with calmer comrades, 

 the latter will instantly catch 



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