The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30
Some Peoples Pets.

Some Peoples PetS.
Proud Woolsey was on familiar terms
with venerable carp. Cowper DOTTED
his melancholy to play with his hares,
and Cleve owned pet tortoise. The
driver of London hanson was wont to
carry little cub fox on the top of his
cab, to their mutual enjoyment. G. F.
Berkeley made household pet of a
young stoat, rendered motherless by his
gun. Sir Jehn Lubbock contrived to win
the affection of Syrian wasp. A lady
becoming possessed of two butterflies of
different species in chrysalis state, re-
solved to try how far they would be
amenable to kindness, and placed them
for security in glazed cabinet in her
we'll warmed bedroom. A few days be-
fore Christmas she was delighted by the
appearance of little yellow butterfly,
but was puzzled how to cater for the
delicate little creature. Taking fairy
rose then in bloom, she dropped little
honey and rose water in blossom, and
put the plant in the cabinet, and soon
had the satisfaction of seeing the butter
fly take its first meal. In a fortnight t
would leave the rose to settle on her hand
when she called it by its name, Psyche.
BY and by peacock butterfly emerged
into active life from the other chrysalis.
The newcomer accepted the sensation of
active life at once, and, like its compan-
ion, delighted in being talked and sung
to, both especially enjoying being waved
in the air and danced up and down while
quietly resting upon the hand of their
mistress. Upon the coming of summer
the cabinet was moved close to the win
dow, and its doors thrown open. For
some days neither of its tenants cared to
venture beyond the windOw-sill, but one
bright afternoon their protectress, with
many bitter tears" beheld them take
wing and join some companions in the
garden; at night, however, they returned
to their lodgings. Next day they took
the air again and were not seen until
September. One afternoon there came a
heavy thunderstorm, and when it was
over, a yellow butterfly was found dead
on the window sill-which the lady, with
some warrant, lamented over as her own
particular one; the peacock" too, would
seem to have met like fate, for it was
never seen again.
De Candolle tells of fair Switzer who
made companion of young wolf, and
had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing
the fond beast fall dead at her feet in a
paroxysm of joy at her return home after
long absence. But the proprietress OF
loving leopard that came regular to
her chamber door in the dead of the
night, and howled loudly enough to wake
the Seven Sleepers, until its mistress
turned out of bed and quoted her dis
turber with an offering of warm milk
might we'll doubt if she had bestowed
her affection wisely. When Capt. Burton
was domiciled in Syria, he left the man
agement of his 1--we stock to his wife. anC
under her fostering care that department
assumed formidable proportions. No
content with horses and goats, camel
turkeys, geese, ducks, fowls and pigeons
Mrs. Burton must have her own especia
pets-a white donkey, young ST. Bar
nard dog, four English terriers, snow
white Persian cat, lamb, and leopard
Mrs. Burton, with pretty good grace
confesses her husband had fair cause fol
saying his happy family reminded him
of the house that Jack built; for the
fowls and pigeons ate the seeds and de-
stroyed the flowers; the cat fed upon the
pigeons, the dog worried the cat; while
the idol of the household harried the
goats until one of them drowned itself in
sheer disgust, and frightened the donkey
and camel by jumping upon their backs
and INDUCING in "a shrieking solo, horri
bic enough to scare any animal of we'll
regulated mind into madness.-Chdm6ers
Journal.