16 AUGUST 1890, Page 17

CATS AS HUMORISTS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—After reading your article on " Cats as Humorists," I am obliged to send you an anecdote of mine, a long-haired, black Persian. Living in the suburbs, we are infested by cats of all kinds, and are perpetually driving them away, aided by the said long-haired favourite, who pursues them off the premises with hair and tail standing wildly erect, and presenting a most alarming appearance. We feel that this violent demonstration must be a joke, as the same cat con- stantly carries the remains of her own dinner about twenty- five yards, across an open space and up some steps, to feed the identical animals she has driven off an hour or two previously.