The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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... anecdotes respecting Cats , with the view of incorporating them with the work , in the event of a fresh Edition being called for . SPRING COTTAGE , FULHAM . November , 1867 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Of the reason why this Book.
... anecdotes respecting Cats , with the view of incorporating them with the work , in the event of a fresh Edition being called for . SPRING COTTAGE , FULHAM . November , 1867 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Of the reason why this Book.
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... and " to free a cat " to steal a muff . Among soldiers and sailors a " Cat " means something very unpleasant indeed , with nine tingling lashes or tails , so called , from the scratches they leave on the 6 The Book of Cats .
... and " to free a cat " to steal a muff . Among soldiers and sailors a " Cat " means something very unpleasant indeed , with nine tingling lashes or tails , so called , from the scratches they leave on the 6 The Book of Cats .
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... called , from the scratches they leave on the skin , like the claws of a cat . A Cat is also the name for a tackle or combina- tion of pulleys , to suspend the anchor at the cat's- head of a ship . Cat - harping is the name for a ...
... called , from the scratches they leave on the skin , like the claws of a cat . A Cat is also the name for a tackle or combina- tion of pulleys , to suspend the anchor at the cat's- head of a ship . Cat - harping is the name for a ...
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... called because wild Cats of large size used to infest it , but I can find no particulars upon the subject in the works of writers on the West Indies . In the North of England , a common expression of contempt is to call a person Cat ...
... called because wild Cats of large size used to infest it , but I can find no particulars upon the subject in the works of writers on the West Indies . In the North of England , a common expression of contempt is to call a person Cat ...
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... called " Piggie . " I learn by the newspaper that a young woman at Leeds nearly lost her eye - sight by a blow from one of these piggies or cats , and the magis- trates sent the boy who was the cause of it to an industrial school ...
... called " Piggie . " I learn by the newspaper that a young woman at Leeds nearly lost her eye - sight by a blow from one of these piggies or cats , and the magis- trates sent the boy who was the cause of it to an industrial school ...
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Page 258 - Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
Page 259 - Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize ; Nor all that glisters gold.
Page 86 - Whittington and his Cat, and that, in order to it, there had been got together a great quantity of mice ; but Mr. Rich, the proprietor of the playhouse, very prudently considered that it would be impossible for the cat to kill them all...