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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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