. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. Ai'i'Ai;r;N'n,v Asi,i',i;r, i;ri' \VAT('iiiN(i A Mousi-; a space twf) and a half inches wide with the As for the speed of an express train. influenced b\'. Danoi':rous Situation for thi-; Cocka'iih.) ir sympathies, they are chiefly warmth and sunlight. Some years ago the present king of England, then Prince of Wales, walking one day in the streets of London with his tutor, made a bet with the latter as to who would count the greatest num- ber of
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. Ai'i'Ai;r;N'n,v Asi,i',i;r, i;ri' \VAT('iiiN(i A Mousi-; a space twf) and a half inches wide with the As for the speed of an express train. influenced b\'. Danoi':rous Situation for thi-; Cocka'iih.) ir sympathies, they are chiefly warmth and sunlight. Some years ago the present king of England, then Prince of Wales, walking one day in the streets of London with his tutor, made a bet with the latter as to who would count the greatest num- ber of cats, each to take one side of the street. Presently the tutor had counted a dozen, while the prince had not seen one, he ha\'ing chosen the shady side of the street, and all the cats were on the other side basking in the sun. The whole feline race seems to have a predilection for the odor of certain plants, among others catnip, mint, and vale- rian, which certainly exercise some sort of magnetism upon them. In Germany these herbs are often used to attract and cajjture destructixe wild cats. According to Blasius, mint in- toxicates cats, after exciting them to frenzied gaN'et)'. When an animal thus overstimulated is put with calmer comrades, the latter will instantly catch Digitized by IVIicrosoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed. Boston, Ginn & Company
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