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Hall cat, that ate, associated, and slept with a huge blood- 

 hound, only did what innumerable cats have done. Such 

 companionships are too common to be reckoned among 

 strange animal friendships, such as that most singular in- 

 stance of attachment between two animals of opposite na- 

 tures and habits, related to Mr. Jesse by a person on whose 

 veracity ho could depend. The narrator boasted the pro- 

 prietorship of an alligator which had become so tame that 

 it would follow him up and down stairs ; while it was so 

 fond of his cat's society that, when she lay down before 

 the fire, the alligator followed suit, made a pillow of puss, 

 and went off to sleep ; and, when awake, the reptile was 

 only happy so long as puss was somewhere near, turning 

 morose and ill-tempered whenever she left it to its own 

 devices. 



2. Many equine celebrities have delighted in feline com- 

 panions, following in this the example of their notable an- 

 cestor, the G-odolphin Arab, between whom and a black cat 

 an intimate friendship existed for years — a friendship that 

 came to a touching end ; for when that famous steed died, 

 his old companion would not leave the body, and, when it 

 had seen it put underground, crawled slowly away to a 

 hay-loft, and, refusing to be comforted, pined away and 

 died. 



3. Mr. Huntington, of East Bloomfield, New York, 

 owns a thorough-bred horse named Narragansett and a 

 white cat. The latter was wont to pay a daily visit to Nar- 

 ragansett's stall, to hunt up the mice and then enjoy a epiiet 

 nap. Mr. Huntington removed to Rochester with his fam- 

 ily, leaving the cat behind ; but she complained so loudly 

 and so unceasingly that she was sent on to the new abode. 

 Her first object was now to get somebody to interpret her 

 desires. At last her master divined them, and started off 

 with her to the barn. As soon as they were inside, the cat 

 went to the horse's stall, made herself a bed near his head, 



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