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the tail should be. There are few long tailed cats in· Russia, and in1 Elastern China, Japan, and MaLaya, long tailed cats .are seldom seen. Here cats have very short tails with a kink near the tip and the sound and voice is similar to thaJt of the judge c·at of India.
The Abyssindan cat is some- what like a wild rabbit. The Red ~iamese cat is very beautiful, the head being long and point- ed; rthe fur is glossy and pink or cream in colour with the face, ears. feet and tail a chocolate brown. The eyes are clear blue.
The Paraguayan1 cat weighs only three pounds, about. one third the weif!"ht of a normal American cat. Mexico had hair- Jes<; cats, the pets of the Aztecs, but they are now extinct.
To the Dane a cat is kat, to the German katz, to the Fren1ch la chat, to the Russian a kot. rut to everybody the world over, howPver vou say it. a cat by the he.arth, paws extended. eyes rlosed. soaking in the warmth. is a ~vmbol of contentment and ne'l.ce ·ar.d a sure sign of a cheer- ful home.
of them on the first of August, 1798, and one of the most fam- ous of nav.al battles was fought. The French were stronger than the British. They had more ships, more gun1s, and more men. They were drawn up in a line of ba,ttle, with the land behind them and the sea before men. n looked as if they could drive nff a force tw~ce their own. But thev did not have a Nelson to command them, and that made ::~11 t h e d i f f e r e n c e . ' ' B e f o r e t h i s time tomorrow I shall have f!ained a viclory or Westminst~·· Abbev," said Nelson. He meant that he would flght until he was victorious or dead and would win such !!'lory tha.t his country- men would be glad to bury him in Westminster Ahbov whero th" nobles~ of the English have thei·.· tomts.
'I'he "Battle of the Nile," as ;• is called, Wias one of the most glorious of English naval victor- ies. Nelson was a man who dirl not know what it meant to fail. He attacked the French and when he was dor.e there was no F r e n c h fleet left. 'T'hirtef'n P"reat-ship<;-of-the-linP were in thP Fren ch fleet.. and of thes" only two escaped. Of four frig- ::J.tes one wa.s sul'<k. and one Wfl'> burnerl. The British lo;;t 895 men. but the loss of the French was 5, 225. Nelson suddenly be- came a f.amous man. One dav's work set all the world to t-alk- ing aboult him. As a resnlt of J'ife1sonls victorv t.he French army was cut off from France .
Nelson's great victor" at Tra- :t'alQ'ar tnok pla;ce in the year J80'i. Nanole.on at that time h?r! a very strong fteet, for the war vPssels of Ppain we,·e added to t .h o ! ' : e o f F l ' : : J n c e . ' T ' h e F i r e n c h fleet wa<; wade uo of Lhirty-four 1<1TeM shins- of- the- line and J'Y1"n" sm,aller craft. The ,.'rH,.lis"< ::~nd French fteets ''Yl"t off Cane 'J'rl'lf,aJo-a,· near th" s0uthern Pn<i of Snain . Nelf'on hois.ted tl-Jr> sio-11::~1 ' ' EnP"l::Jnd e v n e c t s th\lt. P"Prv ,.,...,.,n torl::lv will ri"
Prize-Donald McFadyen NELSON THE SEA KING
r:urin.g the Nine·teenth Cent- "l'Y NapolEOn Bonaparte of France was the lord of the land in most of Europe. He was not, hrwever, lord of the sea. This was rlue to the efforts of a great li'rJo-lish admiral, Hora.tio Nelson. J'iffll"Oleon w a s a s o l d i e r . n10t a .~:Jil.or. At sea he had to trust t~ }'lis c::~,nt,ains a n d t h e b e s t o f thorn were no mfltch for Nelson. the sPg, kin<!'. Nelson won manv virt0ries. The most. important rf thPm being Aboukir and Tra- fal2'ar.
When Na,noleon went to Egvrt P" took '1. strong fleet with him. r~nd w h i l e h e w a s f i ! ! ' h t i n e ; o n l<>r 'd h i s ~hins la:v i n A b o u k i r Bay Here Nelson came in sigh!;
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