Concerning Cats 



took up the practice of investigating my neighbor's 

 third shelf in the china closet. Does it not look as 

 if he reasoned by analogy ? 



Hon. Edward C. Smith, the governor of Vermont, 

 has a handsome jet-black Angora known as Betsinda. 

 In early youth, she was fond of the children and 

 spent much time in the nursery. Finally, a day came 

 when one little kitten was born unto her. She was 

 not, apparently, delighted with her first-born, but 

 she knew the proper way to bring up children of 

 high degree. She immediately took her kitten by 

 the nape of its neck, walked into the nursery, de- 

 posited it in the nurse's lap, and then walked off 

 and left it there. Evidently she did not choose to 

 wear out her fresh young beauty caring for infants ; 

 and what are nurses for, anyway .' 



A writer in Temple Bar says of her own cat : 

 " If the sentiment of the moment was love of her 

 master or mistress (the only person to whom she 

 ever attached herself), hers was the deep, unutter- 

 able gaze which we know in the dog. If it was love of 

 her kittens, there was a tenderness of pride which 

 made maternal fondness in the human face seem 

 tame and foolish. If it was jealousy, — and, like 

 most animals, she was jealous, — the term 'green- 

 eyed monster ' had its full significance, for her 

 irises, which were amber color, changed their hue 

 entirely: her pinkish nose and ears blanched, her 

 face grew peaked, nearly triangular — in fact, she 



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