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THE CAT"<br />

Corporation Cats<br />

Cats are <strong>the</strong> only animals which are ever really<br />

owned by clubs and corporations. A dog, if it<br />

nominally belongs to a company of men, is really<br />

<strong>the</strong> property of some individual man. It must<br />

have a master. A <strong>cat</strong>, being always its own master,<br />

lives happily under a corporate body. Some<br />

of <strong>the</strong> lordliest and most self-satisfied beasts I have<br />

ever known were club and college <strong>cat</strong>s. A <strong>cat</strong> be-<br />

longing to one of <strong>the</strong> London dock companies was<br />

almost ridiculous (if a <strong>cat</strong> could be ridiculous)<br />

from <strong>the</strong> airs of possession and self-importance<br />

which it assumed in regard to <strong>the</strong> company's vaults.<br />

Sir Frederick Pollock has shown us, in <strong>the</strong> " Senior<br />

Fellow," to what a pitch of dignity a college <strong>cat</strong><br />

may rise when it is once on <strong>the</strong> foundation of a<br />

learned society.<br />

109<br />

The Spectator,

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