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The Witch Cat =THE CAT Innumerable legends cluster around the cat during the picturesque centuries of superstition, when men were poor in letters, but rich in vivid imaginings; when they were densely ignorant, but never dull. Even after the Dark Ages had grown light, there was no lifting of the gloom which enveloped Pussy's pathway, there was no visible softening of her lot. The stories told of her imp- ish wickedness have the same general character throughout Europe. We meet them with modest variations in France, Germany, Sweden, Den- mark, England, Scotland and Wales. It was a belated woodcutter of Brittany who saw with hor- ror-stricken eyes thirteen cats dancing in sacri- legious glee around a wayside crucifix. One he killed with his axe, and the other twelve disappeared in a trice. It was a charcoal-burner in the Black Forest who, hearing strange noises near his kiln at night, arose from bed, and stepped into the clear- ing. Before him, motionless in the moonlight, sat three cats. He stooped to pick up a stone, and the relic of Saint Gildas he carried in his bosom fell from its snapt string upon the ground. Im- mediately his arm hung helpless, and he could not touch the stone. Then one of the cats said to its companions : " For the sake of his wife, who is 44
THE CAT= my gossip, sisters, let him go ! " and the next morning he was found lying unconscious, but unharmed, across the forest road. From Scandinavia, where the fair white cats of Freija were once as honoured as were Odin's ravens and Thor's goats, comes the tale of the haunted mill, in which dreadful revelry was heard at night, and which had been twice burned to the ground on Whitsun Eve. The third year, a travelling tailor, pious and brave, offered to keep watch. He chalked a circle on the floor, wrote the Lord's prayer around it, and waited with patience until midnight. Then a troop of cats crept stealthily in, carrying a great pot of pitch which they hung in the fireplace, lighting the logs beneath it. Soon the pitch bubbled and seethed, and the cats, swing- ing the pot, tried to overturn it. The tailor drove them away; and when one, who seemed to be the leader, sought to pull him gently outside the magic circle, he cut off its paw with his knife. Upon this, they all fled howling into the night; and the next morning the miller saw with joy his mill standing unharmed, and the great wheel turning merrily in the water. But the miller's wife was ill in bed; and, when the tailor bade her good-bye, she gave him her left hand, hiding beneath the bedclothes the right arm's bleeding stump. 45
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THE CAT by AGNES REPPLIER Classic L
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World Public Library The World Publ
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OUR FRIENDS, THE BEASTS A SERIES OF
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Copyright, 1912 By STURGIS & WALTON
Page 10 and 11: THE CAT AMONG FOES To a Cat Which H
Page 12 and 13: THE CAT IN THE NURSERY CONTENTS Edu
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Page 16 and 17: THE CAT There is no word of Shakesp
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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
Page 25 and 26: THE CAT= The Cat as a Royal Envoy T
Page 27 and 28: THE CAT= An Appreciation I value in
Page 29 and 30: THE CAT= The Cat I like the simple
Page 31 and 32: THE CAT^ Around, in sympathetic mir
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
Page 39 and 40: THE CAT: that crossing the room? Wh
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
Page 51 and 52: THE CAT= Practice Cultivate your ga
Page 53 and 54: THE CAT Auld Bawthren grey, she kit
Page 55 and 56: THE CAT= A Cat Philosopher and comr
Page 57 and 58: THE CAT: To a Cat which had Killed
Page 59: THE CAT: Why, why was pigeon's fles
Page 63 and 64: THE CAT= Anathema Maranatha That ve
Page 65 and 66: THE CAT: False Gods Now shall ye se
Page 67 and 68: THE CAT= On a study of those who, a
Page 69 and 70: THE CA^ A Martyr In the Reigne of Q
Page 71 and 72: THE CAT= A Cat's Conscience A dog w
Page 73: THE CAT — Rrrrrrrrr There was no
Page 77 and 78: The Cat's Progress =THE CAT Outlawe
Page 79 and 80: THE CAT self still in the cat's way
Page 81 and 82: Far-travelled Nicias hath wooed and
Page 83 and 84: THE CAT, Postscript to a Rondeau, A
Page 85: The Cat's Coronach And art thou fal
Page 88 and 89: Catus, the Cat =THE CAT As to the C
Page 90 and 91: Hinse of Hinsefeld THE CAT I have a
Page 92 and 93: Hodge, the Cat Burly and big his bo
Page 94 and 95: The dear old Doctor! fierce of mien
Page 96 and 97: Atossa Thou hast seen Atossa sage =
Page 98 and 99: THE CAT, grew bold and restless, we
Page 100 and 101: Moumoutte Chinoise =THE CAT I remem
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Page 104 and 105: The Two Cats THE CAT The spring was
Page 106 and 107: THE CAT friend sleeping by the fire
Page 108 and 109: 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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