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[TO TIER EDITOR OF TIM "EPROTATOR."J
SIE,—Would you think the following extract worth adding to your recent interesting notices of our poor pussies ? The extract is from our Dublin Dr. Stokes's "Life of Petrie" (p. 392) :—
"The kitten of his favourite oat had its leg broken, when he rushed eat for one of his friends, then a practising surgeon, but had hardly knocked at the door when, for the first time, the singularity of his posi- tion struck him He was brought to the kitten, the limb was -carefully put up, and the surgeon, refusing his fee, promised to call next -day ; but as Petrie went to show him the door, the old cat, who had watched the entire proceeding, sprang upon the table, and carried her kitten to the corner of the room. She then proceeded to undo all the bandages, deliberately taking out pin by pin, while Petrie watched in amazement, and the splints being removed, she commenced licking the parts, and thus continued with hardly an intermission for some days and nights, when a cure was effected without the slightest deformity."
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