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ing us. I at first supposed that he belonged to some settler, but 
upon examining the neighborhood, no trace of the recent presence 
there of white men could be detected. When we started upon 
our journey in the morning, we left the cat on shore, but he 
followed along the bank, mewing piteously to be taken on board. 
The boat was headed for the shore, and as soon as it touched the 
bank the cat jumped on board, evincing delight at being in our 
company. For the next 100 miles he was our companion, 
we became very much attached to him. He was extremely neat 
and never soiled the boat in any respect while we had him. At 
times he would ask plainly, by such signs as he could command, 
to be set on shore; and then he would hurry back again for fear 
of being left. He was gratified with our attentions to him, an 
purred approvingly when we caressed him. : 
We would have gladly taken him to Washington with us, but 
as that was impracticable we decided to leave him at the first 
place which should seem to offer him a good home. Upon r 
ing Fort Peck, which is now only an Indian trading post, We 
found only one white man there, who was in charge of the S 
To him we told the story of our cat and begged him to ge he 
wanderer a home. He consented, and upon going to the yee | 
at once declared our cat to be one which he, in compati ma | 
party of buffalo hunters, had, the year before, taken to the pe 
where we had found him. He said the cat was absent, plo was 
on a hunt, when they broke their camp, and so Jerry, for pe 
the name we had given him, was left there, and ha spa 
year alone in the wilderness, hunting his own living. sociated 
Of course I cannot cannot say that Jerry had not 4 ahi 
with mankind in all that time, but the circumstances aver 2 
conclusion. If he had, after his abandonment, taken up 
settler, it seems hardly probable that he would have been 50 him 
to join us. He seemed quite conscious that we would ver | 
away from his haunt; and this shows that he had formed aai 
tachment to either persons or locality there. The love a jo 
is doubtless more observable in the cat than the love of demot : 
while the reverse is true of the dog. Cats are never ri suspett 
strative in their expression of attachment as dogs; and do with : 
that the associations of human domesticity has much to 0 that 
the attachment to locality which cats manifest. It 1s ee ; 
Jerry was an unusually intelligent cat; and his as that there 
somewhat exceptional one. But I cannot help thinking. allege! 
is yet much for us to learn of the psychology ° wae 
-well-known animal.—C. A. White. 
Note.—Dr. Crichton Rrowne, Vols. 1 and II “Wen 
Asylum Reports,” states that the greater size O 
ilized races, unaccompanied by a proportionate MM” atin 
pelvic diameters, is an influence operating to a great? evens 
production of idiocy, imbecility and insanity — - y.a 
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