Games With Animal Pets.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue IX, 31 August 1901, Page 431

Games With Animal Pets.

FLAYING HOUSE WITH A KITTEN. A very great many of our boy and girl cousins have written to me in the last two weeks, and I have yet to find a more delightful pastime than reading their clever and entertaining letters. A large number of our little readers have told me interesting stories about their pets. dogs, kittens, and other cunning animals. This has suggested the idea of telling a fewnew ways of having fun with dumb animals, that will not hurt them, which, for the most part, they will readily understand and enjoy quite as much as their young masters and mistresses. One entertaining pastime is to "play house" with a kitten. All that is necessary is a little bell, similar to a sleigh bell, or the kind often tied round pussy's neck: a small

box and a spool. Tie a piece of cord to the bell and hang it from a tack driven into the inside top of the box. one side of which must be open. Put the spool inside of the box. then place the kitten inside the box. as if it were a table: ring the bell, take out the spool, place it on the table, and then give the kitten some milk or a piece of meat. After this is repeated several times the kitten will understand that rhe bell must be rung and the spool placed upon the box before she

will be fed. It is laughable to see her try to hurry the process. A little girl told me her kitten tried to ring the box and put the bell on the spool before she caught the idea correctly. When she had learned what was expected of her she would get the box. drag it to the middle of the floor, ring the little bell furiously, and rattle the spool about on the top of the box whenever she was hungry. If you should try this I should like to have you write me how you succeed.