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CHAPTER IV. ISee Note D, Addenda.'] PUSSY "POLL." The following sketch of cat-life is con- tributed by one who loves " all things both great and small." We give it in extenso. Even supposing it to be endowed with the nine lives ascribed to the race, was it at all probable that I would be successful in rearing to mature cathood that dripping little wretch? Such was the question, which not without doubt, I asked myself while attempting to dry a kitten, some two weeks old, which I had just saved from death in a neighbouring horsepond. Arrived at home, I put in prac- tice as many of the Royal Humane Society's rules for the treatment of the apparently drowned, as I found applicable to the case in hand, and soon had the satisfaction of seeing my charge, comfortably sleeping in a bed prepared in an old cap, by the fireside. Not less successful were my efforts at nurs-