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THE CAT=<br />

Oliver<br />

I wish you would write seriously to M .<br />

She is not behaving well to Oliver. I have seen<br />

handsomer kittens, but few more lively and ener-<br />

getically destructive. Just now he scratched away<br />

at something that M says cost 13s. 6d. a<br />

yard, and reduced more or less of it to combings.<br />

M <strong>the</strong>refore excludes him from <strong>the</strong> diningroom,<br />

and from all those opportunities of higher<br />

edu<strong>cat</strong>ion which he would naturally have in my<br />

house.<br />

I have argued that it is as immoral to place 13s.<br />

6d. a yardnesses within reach of kittens as to hang<br />

bracelets and diamond rings in <strong>the</strong> front garden.<br />

But in vain. Oliver is banished, and <strong>the</strong> protector<br />

(not Oliver) is sat upon. In truth and justice<br />

aid your Pa.<br />

Thomas Huxley to his youngest daughter.<br />

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