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NATURE NOTES. 
tjinny Green Teeth 
Sour-docks 
Kabbits’ food ... 
Thousand leaf... 
Kissing bush ... 
Wicks ... 
Mares’ tails 
Spuds ... 
Sprats ... 
Duckweed 
Wild sorrel 
Wood sorrel 
Y arrow 
Holly in winter 
Roots of couch grass 
Equisetacece 
Potatoes 
Small Potatoes 
From Skipton in Craven, 
Cleats ... 
Prim rose-pearl ... 
Lads’-love 
Blue buttons ... 
Wackering-grass 
May-flower 
Bublicans or publicans 
Yorkshire : — 
Colts’-foot 
... White narcissus 
... Southern-wood. 
... Scabious 
Trembling-grass 
... Cardamine pralensis 
... Marsh marigold 
TWO BOOKS ABOUT CATS. 
R. HARRISON WEIR, an old and tried friend of 
animals of all kinds, to whose graphic pencil we owe 
many hundreds of studies of our four-footed friends, 
has a special affection for the cats, and he has devoted 
to his pets an extremely interesting and beautifully illustrated 
volume which he calls Our Cats, and all about them (Simp- 
kin and Marshall). Mr. Weir is no niggard in the praise he 
bestows on his favourites : “ among animals,” he says, “ pos- 
sibly the most perfect, and certainly the most domestic, is the 
cat.” He is President of the National Cat Club, and founder of 
the now familiar “ Cat Shows,” the first of which was held at 
the Crystal Palace in July, 1871 ; and most of his pictures are 
portraits of cats which distinguished themselves on one or other 
of these occasions. 
The author, in this little volume, gives us a varied and 
interesting collection of facts and fancies connected wdth cats. 
Anecdotes of their intelligence, as evinced by his own pets ; 
descriptions of the different kinds ; notes on their management 
and breeding ; the points by which cats are judged ; their 
diseases and folklore, proverbs, traditions, performing and fish- 
ing cats, loves of cats, stories about cats — almost everything 
connected with cats is to be found in this interesting volume. 
We miss the well-known folk-tale about “the King of the Cats,” 
and the clever punning poem entitled “Poor Pussy,” w r hich is, 
f Mothers told their children it would pull them in the ponds and drown them 
if they went too near. 
