26 JULY 1957, Page 26

CAT LICKS

A friend has just been telling me that her n called on an _unexpected visit from a place 1.011. fifty miles away within a few seconds after On member of the family remarked that the cat washing behind its ears. 1 am told that thib.. common superstition about cats and a more re, guide than finding a tea leaf floating on the sani of the tea in one's cup. (Hard leaf, a gentleman 3 Soft leaf, a lady.) I am no judge of omens., strikes me that cats play a great part in thelll:, lucky to have a black cat cross one's path, a cat purrs in a certain way it will rain, black

ened its claws on the furniture and always stoic favourite chair. Altogether, I think it better to a lookout for unexpected and perhaps tla° visitors! kittens are no good and bring newts into the b and so on. Perhaps it is labouring the point to

th th have a cat that could be relied upon to' actenj have never washed behind its ears so far as remember, so perhaps it had been a blackberry 1-.1 0ft tl imminent arrival of visitors. The cat we 1144 ft tion witches and their cats, but it might be ha"t 11 It fished out my perch and slaughtered them. sh