As to entering the water, every one who is familiar with the habits of the Cat knows perfectly well that the Cat will voluntarily enter water in chase of prey. A Cat does not like to wet her feet, and will not enter the water without a very powerful reason, but when that motive is supplied, she has no hesitation about it. A curious and valuable confirmation of this fact appeared some time ago in "The Field" newspaper, in which was recorded the history of an old fisherman, whose Cat invariably went to sea with him, and as invariably used to leap overboard, seize fish in her mouth, and bring them to the side of the boat, where her kindly owner could lift her out, together with the captured fish. The Cat, then, having been the favoured companion of the Egyptians, among whom the Israelites lived while they multiplied from a family into a nation, it does seem very remarkable that the sacred writers should not even mention it. There is no prohibition of the animal, even indirectly, in the Mosaic law; but it may be the case that the Israelites repudiated the Cat simply because it was so favoured by their former masters. The only passage in the Apocrypha is a passing allusion in Baruch (vi. 22), where it is said of the idols, that bats and birds shall sit on their bodies, and the cats also. That the word is rightly translated admits of no doubt, because it is the same that is employed by Herodotus in the passage already quoted. THE DOG. Antipathy displayed by Orientals towards the Dog, and manifested throughout the Scriptures--Contrast between European and Oriental Dogs--Habits of the Dogs of Palestine--The City Dogs and their singular organization--The herdsman's Dog--Various passages of Scripture--Dogs and the crumbs--their numbers--Signor Pierotti's experience of the Dogs--Possibility of their perfect domestication--The peculiar humiliation of Lazarus--Voracity of the Wild Dogs--The fate of Ahab and Jezebel--Anecdote of a volunteer Watch-dog--Innate affection of the Dog towards mankind--Peculiar local Instinct of the Oriental Dog--Albert Smith's account of the Dogs at Constantinople--The Dervish and his Dogs--The Greyhound--Uncertainty of the word. Scarcely changed by the lapse of centuries, the Oriental of the present day retains most of the peculiarities which distinguished him throughout the long series of years during which the books of sacred Scripture were given to the world.. In many of these characteristics he differs essentially from Europeans of the present day, and exhibits a tone of mind which seems to be not merely owing to education, but to be innate and inherent in the race.