A CAT STORY.
go THE EDITOR OP THE " BpRoTeTon."1 Sin,—I have often read with interest your stories of animals. Perhaps the following may find favour with your cat-loving readers :—We have two cats—the mother, Betsy, and her daughter Lina, two years old. When the kittens came, we had always kept one of each family, but we decided that the next that came should all be destroyed. Accordingly, when Lima's four kittens arrived, they were all drowned. Three days later, Betsy had six kittens. On the cellar being opened in the morning where their bed was, Lina immediately took up the six kittens one by one to the attic, a distance of seventy stairs, doing it as quickly as possible, the last twelve being so steep that she had to hold her head very high to prevent her knocking the kitten she held in her mouth. Having deposited them all in a box, she tried to take the mother too to the sup- posed place of safety. After four were drowned, she repeated this with the remaining two several times, nursing them as though they were her own in the box, not allowing the mother to keep them downstairs at all. By what method of reasoning did she arrive at the intended destiny of these kittens ? or did she think they were her own given back to her ?—1 am,
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