CATS AND GOLDFISH.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOS."1
SIR,—In the Spectator of February 5th is an article on " The 'Cat About Town." The writer does not know if cats ever molest goldfish in a glass-bowl. I can answer the implied query. A black Persian which belonged to me was sorely tempted by some "restless forms of living light" on a table. After watching their movements for some time, she put one -delicate paw into the globe which contained them, and deftly 'shed them both on to the floor ! Strange to say they would not lie still to be eaten, and puss was so alarmed by their flapping about that she ran away, leaving them to their fate. Luckily they were picked up and restored to their native -element. The same cat figured in the Spectator some years ago as heroine of another story, wherein she pretended to chase her cat friends away at one moment, and within half an hour was found carrying her own dinner across a yard to regale them. This happened at Twickenham, where I was
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