[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sus,—Adolphine Teisner's letter surprises
me. My own letter was intended as irony, and was surely so absurd that few could have interpreted it any other way. I sincerely hope so. I am much befriended by, as well as friendly to, animals; and my home is fairly full of these friends. It is probably as well that cats, especially, enjoy The Spectator to sit upon rather than as literature, or I should never hear the last of this!
I never felt quite sure that Mr. Vulliamy's letter was not a leg-pull. It seemed to me shocking, but too absurd. And now I'm really beginning to doubt the whole affair: who can be sure that Rufus did not start it all, signing himself C. E. Vulliamy, for a bet with a pal? It strikes me as a greater probability than that I should be accused of wishing all un- exploitable non-human animals to be abolished. But, then. perhaps Adolphine Teisner also wished to pull a leg or two.
However, in one last effort, may I suggest (cross my heart and slit my throat) that Evelyn G. Knight should read Sir Frederick Hobday's Fifty Years a Veterinary Surgeon.—
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