Reckless HWMB 05 017

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Reckless "'The fireside sphinx,' the pet of the children, the admired habitue of the drawing-room or the salon by day, may become at night a wild animal, pursuing, striking down and torturing its prey, frequently making night hideous with its cries, sneaking into dark, filthy, noisome retreats, or taking to the woods and fields, where it perpetrates untold mischief. Now it ravages the dovecote; now it steals on the mother bird asleep on her nest, striking bird, nest and young to the ground. In the darkness of night it turns poacher. No animal that it can reach and master is safe from its ravenous clutches" (p. 7). Forbush, Edward Howe. The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser and Destroyer of Wild Life . Boston, Wright & Potter, 1916. https://archive.org/details/domesticcatbirdk00forbrich/mode/2up