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these foundlings, and that she supposed the squirrels 
to be her own young.” 
We have introduced the following account of a 
cat who was the means of detecting a murder, from 
the Monthly Magazine for January 1801 . 
A physician at Lyons, in July 1800 , was re- 
quested to inquire into a murder that had been 
committed on the body of a woman of that city. 
In consequence of this solicitation, he went to the 
residence of the deceased, where he found her ex- 
tended lifeless on the floor and weltering in her 
blood. A large white cat was mounted on the cor- 
nice of a cupboard, at the further end of the apart- 
ment, where he seemed to have taken refuge. He 
sat motionless, with his eyes fixed on the corpse, 
and his attitude and looks expressing horror and af- 
fright. The following morning he was found in the 
same station and attitude ; and when the room was 
filled with officers of justice, neither the clattering 
of the soldiers’ arms, nor the loud conversation of 
the company, could in the least divert his attention. 
As soon, however, as the suspected persons were 
brought in, his eyes glared with increased fury ; his 
hair bristled ; he darted into the middle of the 
apartment, where he stopped for a moment to gaze 
at them ; and then precipitately retreated under the 
bed. The countenances of the assassins were dis- 
concerted ; and they now, for the first time during 
the whole course of the horrid business, felt their 
atrocious audacity forsake them. 
Cats are to be found in a wild state in almost 
