The inscription, intended for old German, at the bottom of the cut, is literally as follows: “_Hiet uch, vor den Katczen dy vorn lecken unde hinden kraiczen_”--that is: “Beware of the cats that lick before and scratch behind.” It is rather singular that the editor--who describes the subject as a cat which appears to teach her kitten “le Jeu de Souris”--should not have informed his readers that more was meant by this inscription than met the eye, and that it was in fact part of a German proverb descriptive of a class of females who are particularly dangerous to simple young men.[IV-67] Among the cuts supposed to have been engraved previous to the year 1500, another is given which I suspect also of being a forgery, and by the same person that engraved the cat. The cut alluded to represents a woman sitting beside a young man, whose purse she is seen picking while she appears to fondle him. A hawk is seen behind the woman, and an ape behind the man. At one side is a lily, above which are the words “+Ich wart+.” At the top of the cut is an inscription,--which seems, like that in the cut of the cat, to be in affectedly old German,--describing the young man as a prey for hawks and a fool, and the woman as a flatterer, who will fawn upon him until she has emptied his pouch. The subjects of those two cuts, though not apparently, are, in reality, connected. In the first we are presented with the warning, and in the latter with the example. Von Murr--whom Dr. Dibdin suspects to have forged the French St. Christopher--describes in his Journal impressions from those blocks as old wood-cuts in the collection of Dr. Silberrad;[IV-68] and it is certainly very singular that the identical blocks from which Dr. Silberrad’s scarce old wood engravings were taken should afterwards happen to be discovered and come into the possession of the Baron Von Derschau. [Footnote IV-67: “+Huren sind böse katzen die vornen lecken und hinten kratzen.+”] [Footnote IV-68: Journal zur Kunstgeschichte, 2er Theil, S. 125, 126.]