. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. the child punished for crossness, and as therewas no one near to administer correction, Puss had determinedto take the law into her own hand. It is told that before the conquest of Cyprus by the Turks, agarrison of disciplined cats was kept on that island for the pur-pose of destroying the serpents wherewith it was infested. Sowell trained were these feline hunters, that they came in to theirmeals at the sound of a bell, and upon a similar signal returnedin order to the chase, which they prosecuted with the mostadmirable zeal and addre
. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. the child punished for crossness, and as therewas no one near to administer correction, Puss had determinedto take the law into her own hand. It is told that before the conquest of Cyprus by the Turks, agarrison of disciplined cats was kept on that island for the pur-pose of destroying the serpents wherewith it was infested. Sowell trained were these feline hunters, that they came in to theirmeals at the sound of a bell, and upon a similar signal returnedin order to the chase, which they prosecuted with the mostadmirable zeal and address. Such are the accounts which we have been enabled to glean,from a pretty wide range of authorities, respecting the disposi-tion and manners of the domestic cat. Exaggerated to someextent they may be, but not greatly so; for from all that wehave observed of the animal—and our experience has been neithershort nor partial—we are inclined to regard it as an attached,gentle, and playful associate, and all the more so that it meetswith kindly ^ITS ONLY A DEOP !
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