ood ajar, to observe what was
going on. The cat led the dog to the cupboard which contained the
partridge, pushed off the plate which covered it, and taking out my
intended supper, laid it before her canine friend, who devoured it
quickly."

The following anecdote almost places the cat on a level with the
dog:--"A physician of Lyons was requested to inquire into a murder that
had been committed on a woman of that city. In consequence of this
request, he went to the habitation of the deceased, where he found her
extended lifeless on the floor, weltering in her blood. A large white
cat was mounted on the cornice of a cupboard, at the far end of the
apartment, where he seemed to have taken refuge. He sat motionless with
his eyes fixed on the corpse, and his attitude and looks expressing
horror and affright. The following morning he was found in the same
station and attitude, and when the room was filled with officers of
justice, neither the clattering of the soldier's arms, nor the loud
conversation of the company, could in the least degree divert his
attention. As soon, however, as the suspected persons were brought in,
his eyes glared with increased fury, his hair bristled, he darted into
the middle of the apartment, where he stopped for a moment to gaze at
them, and then precipitately retreated under the bed. The countenances
of the assassins were disconcerted, and they were now, for the first
time, abandoned by their audacious atrocity."

There are several instances on record of cats finding their way back to
their former abodes under circumstances of great difficulty, and the
following appears to me to be one of the most striking of them, and
quoted from a letter:--"When living at Four Paths, Clarendon, Jamaica,
I wanted a cat, and had one given to me, which was nearly full grown; it
was brought from Morgan's Valley Estate, where it was bred, and had
never been removed from that place before. The distance was five miles.
It was put into a canvass bag, and carried by a man on horseback.
Between the two places there are two rivers, one of them about eighty
feet broad and two feet and a half deep, running strong; the other is
wider and more rapid, but less deep; over these rivers are no bridges.
The cat was shut up at Four Paths for some days, and when considered to
be reconciled to her new dwelling, she was allowed to go about the
house. The day after obtaining her liberty, she was missing; and, upon
my next visiting