CATS AND CLOCKS.
ITo THE EDITOR Cr THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I was much interested in your correspondent's account of a puppy who seems able to count the strokes of a clock, as my cat, a Persian of over fifteen years old, can apparently do the same thing. The maid has orders to fetch him from the drawing-room every evening at 9 o'clock to put him to bed. This involves a preliminary thrusting forth into the garden, and at his age he prefers a warm lap; so he constantly springs down as the clock strikes nine and hides under the sofa. His tactics are respected, and the maid, when she appears, is dismissed without him. He then emerges and is allowed another short spell of comfort. I may add that he never goes through this manoeuvre at any other
hour of the day.—I am, Sir, &c., V. F.
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