Excerpt from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. 36 Now for my cats: the Deuce, a 'et-black Tom, only rer'nains. Beelzebub, the wickedest black Tom i ever saw, was probably killed by some one for bad manners, for he was a thorough black nard, though friendly with me. When they were both alive, the Deuce always came in to dinner at seven, and Beelzebub at nine o'clock to tea; and on a Sunday Beelzebub came punctually at five o'clock to afternoon tea, and the Deuce came at nine o'clock to supper; they never came together, and were punctual to a moment, and they did not come from the kitchen, following a servant, but turned up promiscuously of their own accord. The funniest things I ever saw in the cat world was when a friend of mine brought home a small monkey from the Brazils; it was very tame, and lived in a cage in the dining-room. My then cat - of the pre-deuce era - a she-cat with a kitten, came in at breakfast-time and saw the monkey; up went her tail like a furze-bush, and she stood on the tips of her claws, her kitten doing ditto they backed out and fetched the stable cat, and the three proceeded in Indian file to interview the monkey; and at last the foremost cat tapped the monkey's paw, and in a second master Jacko nailed the cat, with his teeth meeting well in her paw. I think reason steps in in a case of this kind, when the cat went and fetched the Stable cat, which had never been in the house before, and was, in fact, only on bowing terms with the family. One more word, though, about dogs. A neighbour of mine, who has a trout stream, is generally accompanied by his dog Moses, a large brown retriever, who has taken strongly to the Sport. If his master hooks a trout he is in wild excitement whilst he is playing it, and is mad with glory when he lands it and takes it of the hook, and the dog carries the fish and puts it into the basket; and if he plays the fish and happens not to land it, Moses howls and refuses to be comforted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.