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Charles Stewart says, — " The cat varies much in its colours, 

 like all domestic animals. The male has seldom more than 

 two colours, the female often more. It has suffered more 

 from vulgar prejudices than most animals. It is cleanly, 

 and buries its excrement. It is supposed to be deceitful, 

 selfish, arid destitute of attachment to mankind ; but if we 

 may believe an article in the 'Journal de Medecine' for 

 December 1771, a cat not only showed affection for its 

 master while alive, but watched his body when dead, and 

 for a long time visited his grave." {Elements of Natural 

 History, vol. i. p. 83.) 



On 4th October 1852, a tortoise-shell kitten, newly weaned, 

 and therefore probably about six or seven weeks old, became 

 an inmate of my house. On 21st February 1853, a Skye 

 terrier about seven weeks old, also came to us. The kitten 

 had been housed in an inverted bee-skep, and the puppy was 

 placed in it also. It was large enough for both ; and they 

 showed no disposition to quarrel. They lapped milk from 

 the same dish, and played together on the kitchen floor, 

 without any apparent want of sympathy with each other's 

 feelings. This companionship continued for some months. 

 But at length the increased size of the puppy made him 

 more formidable in a gambol than was agreeable to his 

 playmate, and her agility was required to enable her to 

 escape from his superior strength, by climbing up stairs, 

 which he was very awkward in doing. They still continued 

 to occupy the same nest or lair, till it became too small for 

 both ; and, afterwards, his disposition to pull it in pieces 

 soon necessitated its abandonment by both. 



After they grew up both continued to live with us, and 

 were constantly in each other's society. They were good 

 friends on the whole ; and when on any occasion they quar- 

 relled, it was almost always the cat who was the aggressor. 

 The dog was very peaceable and yielding ; indeed, he might 

 be called a coward in her presence. He allowed her to fuff 

 at him, and even bore the buffetof her paw, without resist- 

 ing the affront. She took care, however, to scamper away 

 immediately after giving him a blow. There never was 



