SYMPATHY IN CATS AND DOGS. [To TOR &WIVE Or THE
.•SeacrATos."]
SIR, —I know you have a high opinion of the dog's character, but of the "harmless, necessary cat" perhaps you may not think so well as he or she deserves. The following anecdote of my own 'Black Beauty,' or ' Professor Blaokie,' as I often call him, may find a place in your generous paper.
A favourite Pomeranian dog was cruelly blinded by a carter's- lash, and, while his owner tenderly bathed the inflamed eyes, the sleek tom-cat, always sat by with a kindly look of pity in his luminous green eye. When Laddie,' the blind dog, was called in at night, he often failed to find the door, or would strike his venerable head against the posts. 'Blackie," having noted this difficulty, would jump off his warm cushion by the kitchen-fire, trot out with a " mew " into the dark night, and in a few minutes return with Laddie ' shonldenteshonlder, as it were, and the friends would then separate for the night.
Laddie,' when younger, had quietly resented the attentions
shown by his owner to a fascinating kitten, who used to frolic; with his long, fringed tail; but he was too noble to show active dislike. When the kitten died in convulsions—a victim to nerves and a ball of cotton—and its owner bent over the stiffened form in grief,' Laddie ' came gravely up and kissed it. He followed to the grave, and for many days was seen by his mistress to go up the garden and sit upon the sod. Was this his way of showing remorse for his former coldness, or might it be an expression of sympathy for his bereaved owner P—I am, Sir, &c.,
An OLD READER.
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