The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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... fearful . Every one is fond of dogs , and yet Mr. Edmund Yates , travelling by water to Greenwich last June , said that the journey was pleasingly diversified by practical and nasal de- monstrations of the 16 The Book of Cats .
... fearful . Every one is fond of dogs , and yet Mr. Edmund Yates , travelling by water to Greenwich last June , said that the journey was pleasingly diversified by practical and nasal de- monstrations of the 16 The Book of Cats .
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... fond of an individual Cat , but never encounter one , unexpectedly , without a feeling of repugnance ; and , as I like , or feel an interest in , every other animal , I regard this peculiarity as hereditary . " I suppose , however ...
... fond of an individual Cat , but never encounter one , unexpectedly , without a feeling of repugnance ; and , as I like , or feel an interest in , every other animal , I regard this peculiarity as hereditary . " I suppose , however ...
Page 30
... fond of an individual Cat , but never encounter one , unexpectedly , without a feeling of repugnance ; and , as I like , or feel an interest in , every other animal , I regard this peculiarity as hereditary . " I suppose , however ...
... fond of an individual Cat , but never encounter one , unexpectedly , without a feeling of repugnance ; and , as I like , or feel an interest in , every other animal , I regard this peculiarity as hereditary . " I suppose , however ...
Page 36
... fond of all beasts , keep Cats for amuse- ment . Though these animals are gentle and frolicksome when young , yet they , even then , possess an innate cunning and perverse disposition , which age increases , and which education only ...
... fond of all beasts , keep Cats for amuse- ment . Though these animals are gentle and frolicksome when young , yet they , even then , possess an innate cunning and perverse disposition , which age increases , and which education only ...
Page 37
... fond ; but either through fear or falsehood , they approach him by windings to seek for those caresses they have no pleasure in , but only to flatter those from whom they receive them . Very different from that faithful animal the dog ...
... fond ; but either through fear or falsehood , they approach him by windings to seek for those caresses they have no pleasure in , but only to flatter those from whom they receive them . Very different from that faithful animal the dog ...
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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...