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 grace. Never do you see an awkward or ungainly movement. Which fact alone should be an invaluable training for our pencil. From the tip of Pussy's whiskers to the tip of his tail, mark the long flowing line of the graceful limbs, the exquisite curves.

The large open eye, the large upright ear, these are very



characteristic of the cat tribe. Mark the width of the cheeks, the short blunted nose, the receding under-jaw. Note also the stretch of the cat's mouth when open; the muzzle pulls up and reveals the gape at the back of the mouth, and the upper and lower jaw square one with the other. The tiger, the puma, and all the cat tribe share these peculiar characteristics.

Robin the puma (sketched in the London Zoo, to which he was presented by a friend of ours, having outgrown his