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Of the Manner and Customs of Cats.

ET us see though, before we try our anecdotes, what is known of the Cat's peculiarities. I rather like this quaint description of the domestic Pussy, which occurs in an old heraldic book, John Bossewell's "Workes of Armorie," published in 1597:—

"The field is of the Saphire, on a chief Pearle, a Masion Cruieves, This beaste is called a 'Masion,' for that he is enimie to Myse and Rattes. He is