CAT-STORIES.
To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."J SIR.-11. propos of the intelligent felines that have been lately appearing in your correspondence columns, I should like to be allowed to give an instance of the same nature which occurred under my own observation. Puss is proverbially devoted to her own comfort, and the cat I am about to men- tion, Dilver' by name, belonging to a friend of mine, was no exception to the rule. She has frequently been observed, when the sitting-room fire has been dying low, to rise from the hearthrug and deliberately insert her paw between the bars of the grate, and rake out the dead ashes as scientifically as a housemaid, and then lie down again contentedly in the warmth thus obtained. The finicking air with which this was performed, owing to `Dilver's' extreme care not to burn her- self with the hot embers, and the pride which from her manner it was evident she took in her own cleverness, made the whole thing very amusing to witness.—I am, Sir, &c.,
13 Park Roe], Exeter, July 11th. EVANGELINE EVANS.
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