378 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
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, and 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 afiPection 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 fiiff 
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 
