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SOME years ago we had two cats—a tabby, and a powerful tom perfectly white all over. One day I happened to be in the attic, and noticed them go out on the slates, when Tom jumped across the yard to the next roof. It appeared to me a splendid leap, considering the width of the yard and the height of the roof. When Tabby came to the edge of the slates her courage failed, and she uttered a cry of distress, whereupon Tom turned round and leaped back, and giving a cheerful mew as much as to say, “Look how easily it can be done,” jumped across again, this time followed by Tabby, to my great delight.
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The Force of “Example” in Animals. Nature 40, 461 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040461a0
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