16 JANUARY 1875, Page 16

ANOTHER AUTOMATON.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

hope you will consider as worthy of record an habitual action on the part of our "conscious automaton" of the cat species, which certainly exhibits a well-connected train of thought_ In this old house there is a staircase with a borrowed light, admitted at a considerable height from the ground, through a balustrade, beneath which there hangs a bell. When our " auto- maton " finds himself on this staircase—without practicable egress— the door being shut, he leans forward through the balustrade, and literally "touches the bell." Of course, this summons always re- sults in his release by one of his surrounding admirers.—I am;