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Title: Four feet, wings, and fins
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Maskell, A. E. Anderson- Mrs
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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herself clean, using her tongue both as abath, sponge and a towel. As she cannot reach thetop of her head or her ears with her tongue, she justwets a paw and then rubs it on all places which cannot be reached by her tongue. Are cats deceitful ? asked Frank. They have such a name. It is said they cancharm a bird as well as a snake can. I dont thinkthey have so much attachment for our persons as dodogs. Still some who have owned pet cats deny thisvehemently. But they do love the habitations ofmen. Their organ of locality seems more fully de-veloped than that of any other animal. I rememberthat I owned a cat once that seemed remarkable fornothing but theft. She not only preyed upon us, but,also, upon our nearest neighbor. This neighbor be-came tired of the cats depredations, and, one day,being about to go several miles on a visit, tied pussup in a stout canvass bag and carried her eight milesbefore untying the bag and giving her her liberty,and then it was in a dense growth of wood. Some
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A Happy Family. THE FIRST SUBJECT—Felis-domestica. two weeks later, as I was sitting out on the backdoor-step, who should walk up but kitty, and rub hersoft fur against my dress. I could scarcely believemy own eyes. Puss was a great pet for a long timeafter that. Then, again, she disappeared, and as theweeks and months flew by ^without one word as tokittys whereabouts, we never expected to see heragain. I do think she was away some four months,when, one day, we heard a sicratch at the door, and,on opening it, w^ho should we see but old puss, andwith her, six kittens. And, if we werent surprisedthen we never were again. The children laughed heartily. Cats can always be trained to be kind and affec-tionate, too, but they must be well fed, spoke upMrs. Ellerton. And if they are taken soon enoughthey can be taught to make companions of even birdsand mice. That seems very strange, does it not)But I went to visit a place once where I saw a cat,two white mice, a rat and several birds all t

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