Certain Cat Characteristics 



kittens, came up from the cellar in hot haste, and 

 rushed into the kitchen. She began to mew piteously 

 and attracted the attention of the cook and the family 

 by running to the cellar door, but when it was opened 

 for her she refused to descend : finally she induced 

 one member of the family to go down with her. When 

 they got downstairs, a wooden barrel close beside the 

 box where her kittens were lying was discovered to be 

 in a blaze : a few minutes more and the house would 

 have been on fire. John Harvard, despite the weak- 

 ness of her sex, had vindicated the honor of her name, 

 and since then she has lived on the fat of the land. 



An acquaintance of mine once fed a tramp cat who 

 came to her door every morning for a week or two. 

 Finally, one morning, he appeared with another cat 

 even more forlorn in appearance than himself. The 

 second morning he brought two cats ; and the next 

 morning he appeared with six homeless feline waifs, 

 asking plainly for breakfast enough to go round. The 

 lady thought this too much of a test of her hospitality ; 

 so after feeding them all she looked at the first tramp 

 and said to him : — 



" Now see here, sir : this is a little too much. I will 

 give you a breakfast every morning, but I can't feed 

 such a crowd. Remember, now, you mustn't bring 

 them again." 



The cat never afterward brought his friends, al- 

 though he came regularly some time for his own 

 breakfast. 



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