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Smart Cat
from True Stories About Dogs and Cats, by Eliza Lee Follen
Smart Cat
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"I have still a little more to say to you about animals," said Mrs. Chilton, one evening, to her two boys, "as you seemed pleased with what I told you, some time ago, about
cats."
A friend told me, the other day, that, when she was at Hopkinton, where she went for the benefit of the baths, the mistress of the hotel told her that their cat understood language; for that a gentleman, who was there and was going fishing, told the cat to go and catch him a frog.
The cat disappeared, and, a little while after, brought in a frog.
She added, that the next day he told the cat again to go and catch him a frog.
The cat again set off on the same errand, and brought in two frogs; but she had bitten off the head of one of them, as if to pay for her labor."
"Do you believe that story, Puss?" said Harry. "See, Puss shakes her head. Do you believe it, Mother?"
"The authority was very good. I could not easily disbelieve it."
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