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stroyed the poultry of his neighbours, kid 
they killed it.” 
“How sorry he must have been!” said 
Annie. “ It would have been better to keep 
it chained up. It seems as though they need 
not have killed it.” 
“I rather think if they had been your 
chickens you would have felt differently,” 
observed Richard. “It does not seem to 
me that any one has a right to keep pets 
which interfere with the comfort or pro¬ 
perty of neighbours.” 
“ I think not, decidedly,” said Miss Win¬ 
ston. 
“ Did you ever see any of these tiger-cats, 
aunt?” asked Daisy. 
“ I once saw an animal in a menagerie,” 
replied Miss Winston, “which I think must 
have been a margay, as I remember it,— 
though I had not at that time paid much at¬ 
tention to such things. It was very little larger 
than a well-grown domestic cat, with a very 
long tail. Its skin was of a pale-buff or fawn 
colour, with black bands, and the under 
parts were white. It inhabited the same 
cage with a fine large hawk, with which it 
seemed to live on the most intimate and 
