I WAS on a visit one day to an old friend of mine, and while staying with her another visitor came, or perhaps I should say two, for the lady brought her cat with her. When friends dropped in to see us, the cat, being a very fine one, soon attracted attention, consequently Puss often became the subject of discourse. But the chief amusement was in seeing the clever way in which she would empty a narrow-necked milk-jug of its contents. Not a basin like the one in our picture, but an ordinary narrow-necked jug.
First the servant would bring a cloth and spread it on the carpet, then place a milk-jug thereon. Puss soon understood what to do. She sat close to the jug and put her paw in it, then she drew it out and licked it quite clean; this was repeated again and again, till at last the jug was empty.
I suppose we might teach a cat, as other animals, almost anything, but with all their cleverness, I would much rather have the bright intelligent ways of a little boy or girl, even if they were not quite so clever.