led round its front paws, likewise looking into
the fire. For a few minutes the pair were quite still; then the dog
moved, and the kitten sprang down. A more curious sight has probably
seldom been witnessed.

It was noticed that the fox-terrier always knew its feline friend in the
dark, and was always able to distinguish it from other cats. These, when
they appeared, were always ferociously charged and driven away; and one
day, in its eagerness to get at a strange cat, the dog nearly hurt its
little companion. It happened in this way. The two friends were out
together in the yard behind the house. The cat got up on a wall, and
soon afterward another cat appeared at the other end. The two stood
looking at one another about ten yards apart, when the dog became aware
of the presence of the stranger. Knowing a way up on to the wall, it
immediately ascended, but when it got up, its companion was between it
and the other cat. However, the dog rushed along the wall to get at the
interloper, and as there was no room to pass, simply knocked its little
friend over, and then made a great effort to catch the enemy.

It was curious to see a dog perpetually rushing at cats, and then
returning from the chase to gambol about in the most friendly manner
with another cat. The friendly intercourse with the one never had the
slightest effect in changing its animosity to others. The dog's
affection even went so far as to cause it to show resentment whenever
the cat was punished. When the cat was touched with the whip, it would
turn up its eyes, and look as much annoyed as it was possible for a dog
to be. Animals have keener susceptibilities, and show more feeling, than
many people imagine.

Sea-gulls are not often met with as domestic pets; but the great
bird-fancier Morris, in his work on natural history, mentions a tame
sea-gull which struck up a great friendship with a terrier which spent a
great part of its time in the garden where the gull was kept. Here is an
anecdote contributed some years ago to the _Naturalist_, on the
authority of Mr. Donaldson. His gull was quite an epicure in its way,
and fancied sparrows' flesh for dinner. But as it had to cater for its
own luxuries, the question of catching the sparrows became an important
one. However, the gull thought the matter over, and soon devised an
excellent scheme for capturing the four or five sparrows which it
required as a daily _bonne bouche_. It fraternized with a number of
pi