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THE CAT There is no word of Shakespeare's to which the cat-lover may turn with delight, as the hunter turns to the gallant lines of Theseus " My hounds are hred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew." As a matter of fact, all the earliest notices of the cat are peevish outcries against her freebooting instincts, her spirit of stubborn independence. She was centuries winning a foothold in society even as the " harmless necessary cat/' that rid the household of mice, and any deviation from duty's path brought down upon her graceful head a torrent of abuse. " These vylanous false cattes Were made for mice and rattes, And not for byrdes small/' writes John Skelton, with unwarranted confidence in the discrimination of nature's laws. " Grimalkin, the foul Fiend's cat, Grimalkin, the witche's brat," runs an old rhyme, expressing the popular preju- dice of its day. xiv
THE CAT " A ha-penny cat may look at a king," says a Scotch proverb, blatantly contemptuous of Pussy's place in the order of creation. It was not until the arts of peace had supplanted the arts of war, and men had leisure to make them- selves comfortable, that the cat emerged from ob- scurity, and evinced a laudable disposition to share this comfort. It was not until a growing taste for luxury softened the old hardy, turbulent life, that the cat felt herself at ease by the firesides of civil- ization. She was cautious in her advances, sharing the deep mistrust which she inspired, and reserved even with her friends. The most domestic of animals, by virtue of her attachment to her home, she has never made a full surrender of her freedom. The most companionable of animals, by virtue of her softness, her silence, her orderly instincts and her innate self-respect, she grants her friendship only on terms of equality. The most suave of animals, she remains a mystery, as impenetrable now as when she shared the witch's knowledge and the witch's doom. For all these reasons, people who write about cats do so, for the most part, in terms of exaggeration. The world is divided into men and women who love cats, and men and women who cordially detest them. It seems difficult to preserve an atti- xv
Page 1 and 2: THE CAT by AGNES REPPLIER Classic L
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Page 5: OUR FRIENDS, THE BEASTS A SERIES OF
Page 8 and 9: Copyright, 1912 By STURGIS & WALTON
Page 10 and 11: THE CAT AMONG FOES To a Cat Which H
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Page 21 and 22: The Cat THE CAT On some grave busin
Page 23 and 24: THE CAT: The Cat of Egypt The numbe
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Page 27 and 28: THE CAT= An Appreciation I value in
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Page 33 and 34: THE CAT A Poet's Kitten I have a ki
Page 35 and 36: THE CAT= Erected stiff, and gait aw
Page 37 and 38: THE CAT: And yet, for that thou has
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Page 41 and 42: THE CAT= Good and Bad Kittens Kitte
Page 43 and 44: THE CAT= Dido We have got the prett
Page 45 and 46: THE CAT= The Strength Which Lies in
Page 47 and 48: THE CAT; The Kitten and the Falling
Page 49 and 50: THE CAT Pussy-Willows I sometimes t
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Page 53 and 54: THE CAT Auld Bawthren grey, she kit
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Page 57 and 58: THE CAT: To a Cat which had Killed
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Page 61 and 62: THE CAT= my gossip, sisters, let hi
Page 63 and 64: THE CAT= Anathema Maranatha That ve
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THE CAT= On a study of those who, a
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THE CA^ A Martyr In the Reigne of Q
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THE CAT= A Cat's Conscience A dog w
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THE CAT — Rrrrrrrrr There was no
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The Cat's Progress =THE CAT Outlawe
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THE CAT self still in the cat's way
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Far-travelled Nicias hath wooed and
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THE CAT, Postscript to a Rondeau, A
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The Cat's Coronach And art thou fal
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Catus, the Cat =THE CAT As to the C
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Hinse of Hinsefeld THE CAT I have a
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Hodge, the Cat Burly and big his bo
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The dear old Doctor! fierce of mien
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Atossa Thou hast seen Atossa sage =
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THE CAT, grew bold and restless, we
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Moumoutte Chinoise =THE CAT I remem
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=THE CAT object of affection, unles
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The Two Cats THE CAT The spring was
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THE CAT friend sleeping by the fire
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THE CAT her turn to be helped, beha
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Don Pierrot de Navarre THE CAT Pier
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=THE CAT his displeasure by going t
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Nero THE CAT I own that when Agripp
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THE CAT mew, as if fearing he might
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=THE CAT can see him now, standing
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THE CAT and look into my face, foll
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Tom of Corpus The Junior Fellow's v
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THE CAT Oliver A long series of cat
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Mentu =THE CAT The wild nature in M
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The Shah of Persia -THE CAT Cats of
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THE CAT with his two soft paws —
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A passing scent could keenly wake T
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=THE CAT rival, the mutual fear whi
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mdRmuko Apeak concernina /Cab Inmii
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=THE CAT I only know they make me l
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THE CAT The hand, and person genera
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The Ratcatcher and Cats The rats by
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But let us limit our desires, Nor w
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THE CAT The captain's humanity did
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THE CAT without his mascot, but to
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The Point of View THE CAT " Dog," s
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An Encounter THE CAT One day a frie
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The Retired Cat A poet's cat, sedat
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Awaken'd by the shock, cried Puss,
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Moral. Beware of too sublime a sens
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THE CAT An Outcast My father had a
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A Poet to the Rescue =THE CAT Passi
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The Colubriad Close by the threshol
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Discipline THE CAT A female cat is
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THE CAT On the Death of a Favourite
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Marigold =THE CAT She moved through
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A Sea Fight THE CAT "Prince," said
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Six little mice sat down to spin, P
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The Cattie Sits in the Kiln-Ring Th
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Grisette Dines Always well behaved
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