OUR FOUR-FOOTED COMPANIONS. 



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11. Let it further be observed how widely different 

 is the whole bearing of an affectionate cat from that of 

 a dog when, with his body crouching and flexuotis, and 

 ears depressed, he caresses his master. This contrast in 



the attitudes of these 

 two carnivorous ani- 

 mals, under the same 

 pleased andaffection- 

 ate frame of mind, 

 can be explained, as 

 it appears to me, sole- 

 ly by their move- 

 ments standing in 

 complete antithesis 

 to those which are 

 naturally assumed 

 when those animals 

 feel savage and are 

 prepared either to 

 fight or to seize their 

 prey. 



12. In these cases 

 of the cat and the 

 dog there is every reason to believe that the gestures, both 

 of hostility and affection, are innate or inherited ; for they 

 are almost identically the same in the different races of 

 the species, and in all the individuals of the same race both 



young and old. Charles Darwin. 



An Affectionate Cat. 



TO FLUSH, MY DOG. 



1. Loving friend, the gift of one 

 Who her own true faith hath run 



