-PRESENTS BY ANIMALS.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE 'Sr icarAToo.." I SI13,—A few weeks ago I read with interest an article in your paper on the subject of gifts, in which you said that .animals rarely gave each other presents. Your readers may like to bear of an exception to the rule. This morning, while-we were breakfaating, the youngest member of the household, a black cat a little more than a year old, walked past the window carrying a bird and uttering the peculiar cry which signifies good hunting. About ten minutes later, when I was in the kitchen, she jumped in at the window and laid the bird in front of her mother, who was dozing under the table.. The old cat woke up and began to eat, while her daughter. sat by, making no attempt to share in the meal. Three or four years ago I twice saw the old eat bring a mouse to another daughter who was nursing- her first family of- kittens..--I am, Sir, Sm., F. a
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