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74 gusto, quite independent of the promptings of hunger, watching at their holes with untiring pertinacity, and having pounced upon her prey, will often bring it and lay it down at the feet of some one whose affection she values, with a little cry of complacency. It is, however, very frequently kept as a pet, and loved for its own sake, though there may be no mice to be destroyed. The Cat's susceptibility of kindly affections has been

DOMESTIC CAT.

much underrated. Instances occur continually of Cats willingly accompanying a family removing their residence, and becoming at home at once, without manifesting any desire to return to the former dwelling; plainly evincing that the