The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it; . eard caterwauling on Eng-lish roofs can have no idea of a cat-serenade in Malta,writes S. T. C. In England it has often a close andpainful resemblance to the distressful cries of youngchildren ; but in Malta it is identical with the wide rangeof screams uttered by imps while they are dragging eachother into hotter and still hotter pools of brimstone andfire. It is the discord of torment and of rage and ofhate, of paroxysms of revenge, and every note grumblesaway into despair. This reminds us of the cognatesubject of cat-calls, once so valuable
The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it; . eard caterwauling on Eng-lish roofs can have no idea of a cat-serenade in Malta,writes S. T. C. In England it has often a close andpainful resemblance to the distressful cries of youngchildren ; but in Malta it is identical with the wide rangeof screams uttered by imps while they are dragging eachother into hotter and still hotter pools of brimstone andfire. It is the discord of torment and of rage and ofhate, of paroxysms of revenge, and every note grumblesaway into despair. This reminds us of the cognatesubject of cat-calls, once so valuable an aid to theatricalenjoyment, and the theme of a delightful paper in theSpectator. A Fellow of the Royal Society, writesAddison, who is my good friend, and a great proficientin the mathematical part of music, observes very wellthat musical instruments took their first rise from thenotes of birds and other melodious animals ; and what,says he, was more natural than for the first ages of man-kind to imitate the voice of a cat that lived under the. BLUE AND WHITE. FACTS AND FANCIES OF THE CAT. J I same roof with them ? He added that the cat had con-tributed more to harmony than any other animal, as weare not only beholden to her for this wind instrument,but for our string music in general. Here is a field ofinquiry which Miss Carrington neglects. Much might be said about the cat in in its habits and given to placid meditation,it is peculiarly the authors companion. And so we findthe poets singing its praises, from Cowper and Words-worth to Mr. Lewis Morris, of Pen-bryn. There is nota more delectable page in all Boswell than that whichtells of Johnsons fondness for his cat Hodge—forwhom he himself used to go and buy oysters, lest theservants having that trouble should take a dislike to thepoor creature. I recollect him one day scramblingup Dr. Johnsons breast, apparently with much satisfac-tion, while my friend, smiling and half whistling, rubbeddown his bac
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