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A&GO&A CAT. 
Some years ago a sympathy of this nature took 
place, in the house of Mr. James Greenfield, of 
Maryland, betwixt a cat and a rat. The cat had 
kittens, to which she frequently carried mice and 
other small animals for food ; and among the rest 
she is supposed to have carried to them a young 
rat. The kittens, probably not being hungry, 
played with it ; and when the cat gave suck to 
them, the rat likewise sucked her. This having 
been observed by some of the servants, Mr. Green- 
held was informed of it. He had the kittens and 
rat brought down stairs, and put on the floor ; 
and in carrying them off, the cat was remarked to 
convey away the young rat as tenderly as she did 
any of the kittens. This experiment was repeated 
as often as any company came to the house, till 
great numbers had become eye-witnesses of the 
preternatural affection. 
These incidents, it is excellently observed by 
Mr. Bingley, form no bad solution of that strange 
circumstance, asserted by grave historians as well 
as poets, of exposed children being sometimes 
nurtured by female wild beasts, that probably had 
lost their young. For it is no more marvellous 
that Roroulos and Remus, in their infant state, 
should be nursed by a she wolf ; than that a 
sucking leveret, a set of young squirrels, or a rat, 
should be fostered and cherished by a fierce gri- 
malkin. 
Angora cat. 
The Angora cat is a variety of the domestic 
species. When M. Sonnini was in Egypt, he had 
one of them in his possession for a long time. It 
was entirely covered with long silky hairs : its 
tail formed a magnificent plume which the 
animal elevated, at pleasure^ over its body. Not 
