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Show AN INTELLIGENT CAT. I Goes to Praycr-Martlnr Bring noma Miss Ellia OraDgeMossoui. Over at the West End, aays the Boston Transcript, there Uvea a colored family which is noted for possessing a breed of cats which it seems to have a monopoly of - remarkably intelligent animals they are If not always sleek and handsome. Not long ago a lady on Beacon Hill who was In need of a servant, and to whom a daughter of this colored household had been recom mended, called one evening at tbe little house up an alley where the people lived. A stout, black woman came to the door. "Does Eliia Orangblossom live heret" the lady asked. "Yes, she do, ma'am ; but she ain't In Jes' dis minute," said tbe stout, colored woman "Butef you'U step to, I'll sen' out arter her." She led the way in and seated the lady to the living-room of the house. There were several cats present, one of which, a scrawny but alert-looking Maltese with green eyes, rubbed np amiably and Inquiringly In-quiringly against ths visitor's dress. "You come 'way from dar, you Malty!" exclaimed the colored woman to the cat. "You hyah mel Now you go ober t da chu'chandgit'Lliy, and bring her home. You go fetch 'Liry I" .he repeated, holding the door open. The cat, after sidling and wavaring on the threshold a moment, as cats always do in ordernot to appear too obedlent,disapnewd through tbe door. i"ppekri . "Willwill Omr KH-rvon..,,,,..,,, |