![CHAPTER IV.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/The_Book_of_Cats_-_Chapter_4_headpiece.png/400px-The_Book_of_Cats_-_Chapter_4_headpiece.png)
Of the Manner and Customs of Cats.
ET us see though, before we try our anecdotes, what is known of the Cat's peculiarities. I rather like this quaint description of the domestic Pussy, which occurs in an old heraldic book, John Bossewell's "Workes of Armorie," published in 1597:—
"The field is of the Saphire, on a chief Pearle, a Masion Cruieves, This beaste is called a 'Masion,' for that he is enimie to Myse and Rattes. He is