| Show how fuss regards man the cat was a solitary roamer whose companions wen the trees of its native forests forest it found a home in the hollow like and safety among the branches how do we know that the cats cat ancestors anc estora were dwellers in the forests because became every kitten takes to a tree as readily as a duck to water also because nearly all forest dwellers are mottled in color so that they may mav not be conspicuous among the light and shadows beneath the tries tres while I 1 was considering aha was the probable view held by cats cat about human wax was suggested by one ingenious friend that probably they regard a man as a kind of locomotive tree plea pleasant gant to rub against the lower limbs 0 of f which afford a comfortable seat scat and iram from whose upper branches blasof mutton and other luscious fruits we may langh at the theory betit but it has quite it a respectable string of facts to back it up if the banakas at ar gued from the pig to the horse why should the cat not pass part from the faill lar far tree to the unfamiliar org organs angim lm call ed man I 1 the cat ira in spite of the domestic character it has acquired Is in reality the least tame of our animal servants As far as its duties are concerned man has thought it practically nothing its meth of pursuing rats mice inice and birds all entirely its own it Is indeed rather a wild animal which has taken up its residence in our houses for its own pur posed than a servant or a slave from wild traits in tame animals by dr louis robinson in north american review for august |
