So there they are, now pretty well masters of their movements, taking headers to get down from the bed to the chair, from the chair to the floor, climbing up along the curtains and the tapestry, and even attempting to climb the furniture and polished objects. A few more days and their mode of descending will be less like tumbling, their ascents less like scrambling: they will spring and they will bound, and will be real individual cats.
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome and London.
[1] The Zoological Society has now fitted up the building, which was formerly the Reptile House, with new cages, and to this "Cat House" the specimens above alluded to have been removed, together with other forms which were kept within the "Small Mammals' House," such as the Pampas Cat, the Ocelot, the Geoffroy's Cat, Serval, etc.
[2] The number of visitors admitted on the occasion of this one-day show amounted to the grand total of 19,310.
[3] The above editorial note was added when the chapter appeared in _The Animal World_.
[4] The Latins had the happy expression _mansuetus_ to express this idea.
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