Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-31 | Page 4 | Characteristics of the Cat

characteristics OF CAT household pet has many traits that are almost human cats dread death terribly I 1 had a nefarious old cat gyp who used to open the cupboard door and eat any biscuits accessible gyp had a stroke ot paralysis and believed that be was going to die lie was in a mr horace hutchinson observed him and said that this cat justly entertained him to most painful apprehensions hen of the future reward gyp was nursed back into health as was proved when we found him on the root of an outhouse with a cold boiled chicken in his possession nothing could be more human cats like many wild beasts wish to die alone A lady of my acquaintance met in a lane in kensington an old dying cat resolutely tottering northwards she knew that he knew he was dying and she knew where he wanted to go be side the lane Is a place not built over within palisades and all overgrown with dock and burdock so she picked the cat up despite the of a tor a sick strange cat Is not to lappen to she carried him to a hole in the palisade and be crept in tor the purpose he knew sol etude and death some cats are snobs though not so many cats as dogs share this human A lady had two cats one was a drawing room cat the other a common kitchen cat both simultaneously had families the drawing room cat carried her kit tens downstairs to be nursed by the common kitchen cat but every day she visited the nursery several times she was not quite heartless but she had never read jean jacques rous of children and seau on the nursing aristocratic longman s she was very magazine