Four-footed Americans and their kin . 230 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS rough, its tongue is when it licks your finger. Youhave seen its eyes shine in the dark, and how the pupil(the little dark spot in the centre that lets in thelight to make it see) can be made large or small. Youhave watched it steal along softly on its hunting tripsas cautiously as a man, and you have seen it give amouse or bird the fatal blow with its heavy paw, thatboth stuns and holds like a trap. It is a cats skill as abird hunter that made me banish it years ago from thefarm, for a terrier will keep the rats and mic
Four-footed Americans and their kin . 230 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS rough, its tongue is when it licks your finger. Youhave seen its eyes shine in the dark, and how the pupil(the little dark spot in the centre that lets in thelight to make it see) can be made large or small. Youhave watched it steal along softly on its hunting tripsas cautiously as a man, and you have seen it give amouse or bird the fatal blow with its heavy paw, thatboth stuns and holds like a trap. It is a cats skill as abird hunter that made me banish it years ago from thefarm, for a terrier will keep the rats and mice in orderquite as well. You also know, or at least I am sure that Olivedoes, how a cat steals away to find some very privateplace for a nest for her little blind kittens, and howmuch pride she takes in cuddling them in her arms andsuckling them until they can lap milk or catch mice forthemselves. Indeed I do, for a cat once made a nest on a shelfin a box where I kept my best hat all trimmed withostrich feathers and velvet! said Olive. Our Wil
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