188 ATTACHMENT OF KITTEN. [PART It, 
fond of me, until I was entirely supplanted in 
his affections by the butler. Even then we were 
very good friends so long as the butler was not 
in the room, but the moment he made his ap- 
pearance, the bird seemed to be seized with a 
feeling of the greatest possible hostility towards 
me, attempting to bite me, and shewing his ani- 
mosity in a most decided manner. On these oc- 
casions I generally abstained from putting my 
fingers too close to him, but once, having on a 
thick velveteen shooting-coat, besides shirt and 
flannel-waiscoat, I thought I might venture to 
test his disposition by offering him my arm in 
an amicable manner. Had the butler not been 
there, he would at once have come on it, but, as 
it was, he soon set all doubt at rest, by taking a 
piece clean out of coat, shirt, flannel-waistcoat and 
arm at one fell bite. 
A Kitten once attached herself to me in a 
manner which was certainly very remarkable, par- 
ticularly as I do not remember ever to have cul- 
tivated her affections by any other means than 
those of simple kindness and attention. 
The place where she was supposed to live of 
a morning was a room appropriated to the lady’s- 
maid, lying beyond a back-staircase, by which I 
