Dogs and cats, reflects our photographer, are everywhere enemies, but his photograph (taken in India) shows that just as with Twink and her feline friend, wonders never cease. See also The Mischief-Maker, where a maharajah must give judgment as to which of the two started all the trouble.
A GENTLEMAN, well known to the writer, witnessed a most singular act of kindness in a greyhound towards a cat and her kittens. Twink had long shown a partiality for this cat, and when basking before the fire, would suffer the cat to lie upon her: if Twink was tied up at her kennel, she was generally attended by puss.
The latter having kittened in a barn about thirty yards from the house, brought out her young family, and endeavoured to convey them across the yard, but her progress being arrested by a hollow drain for water, about four feet wide, she exhibited strong symptoms of distress.
These did not pass unobserved by Twink; having attentively considered the situation of poor puss, she walked through the water, and carefully taking up the kittens, in her month, one by one, laid them without injury in a dry place, on the side next the house. The cat now followed, and expressed her gratitude in the most extravagant manner, standing on her hind legs, purring, and licking the face of the greyhound. Twink was not less pleased, and showed her satisfaction much in the same way.
Précis
One day, a greyhound called Twink spotted her special friend, the cat, struggling to get home with her new litter of kittens, thanks to a flooded water channel in the yard. Twink bounded up, and gently carried over each kitten and the mother too, for which she received a flurry of rubs and purrs and licks to warm the heart. (60 / 60 words)
