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THE CAT and look into my face, follow me about when I rose, " assist " at the dressing, and in many purr- ing ways show his fondness, as if he had plainly said, " I know that she has gone away, but I am here." Such was Calvin in rare moments. Charles Dudley Warner. 108

THE CAT" Corporation Cats Cats are the only animals which are ever really owned by clubs and corporations. A dog, if it nominally belongs to a company of men, is really the property of some individual man. It must have a master. A cat, being always its own master, lives happily under a corporate body. Some of the lordliest and most self-satisfied beasts I have ever known were club and college cats. A cat be- longing to one of the London dock companies was almost ridiculous (if a cat could be ridiculous) from the airs of possession and self-importance which it assumed in regard to the company's vaults. Sir Frederick Pollock has shown us, in the " Senior Fellow," to what a pitch of dignity a college cat may rise when it is once on the foundation of a learned society. 109 The Spectator,

THE CAT<br />

and look into my face, follow me about when I<br />

rose, " assist " at <strong>the</strong> dressing, and in many purr-<br />

ing ways show his fondness, as if he had plainly<br />

said, " I know that she has gone away, but I am<br />

here." Such was Calvin in rare moments.<br />

Charles Dudley Warner.<br />

108

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