38. Portraits of Cats.

Lady Lovepet has portraits, drawn in her
scrap-book, of all the cats she ever had among
her pets ; and she and her old housekeeper are
never tired of looking at them. Let us admire
them too!

But, however fond Lady Lovepet might be of

 

Topaz, she once had another pet, whom she
loved quite as well, but who came to an untimely
end. This was her parrot, Bijou. He was a
wonderful bird, there is no doubt about it. He
could talk and sing in two or three different
languages, and was so tame, that instead of
being kept shut up in his cage all day, he used
to be let out in a conservatory among the plants,