BOOK OF CATS.

A Chit-Chat Chronicle

OF

FELINE FACTS AND FANCIES, LEGENDARY, LYRICAL

MEDICAL, MIRTHFUL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

BY CHARLES H. Ross.

WITH

Twenty Ellustrations by the Author.

F

LONDON:

GRIFFITH AND FARRAN,

(SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS),

CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.

MDCCCLXVIII.

KONINKLIJKE
BIBLIOTHEEK

LONDON

WERTHEIMER, LEA AND CO., PRINTERS, CIRCUS PLACE,

FINSBURY CIRCUS.

work, in the event of a fresh Edition being

called for.

SPRING COTTAGE, FULHAM.

November, 1867.

Of the reason why this Book was written, and of several sorts

of Cats which are not strictly Zoological

CHAPTER II.

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3

Of some Wicked Stories that have been told about Cats.

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CHAPTER III.

Of other Wicked Stories, with a few Words in Defence or

Of Whittington's Cat, and another Cat that visited Strange

Countries

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