CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT HARKLESS COMES HOME

LORDS OF THE HOUSETOPS THIRTEEN CAT TALES

CONTENTS Preface, ix I Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat, 1 II Guy Wetmore Carryl: Zut, 11 III Algernon Blackwood: A Psychical Invasion, 29 IV Honore de Balzac: The Afflictions of an English Cat 103 (translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten) V Booth Tarkington: Gipsy, 124 VI G. H. Powell: The Blue Dryad, 131 VII Mark Twain: Dick Baker's Cat, 144 VIII Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat, 149 IX Thomas A. Janvier: Madame Jolicœur's Cat, 163 X W. H. Hudson: A Friendly Rat, 198 XI William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend, 203 XII Peggy Bacon: The Queen's Cat, 220 XIII Charles Dudley Warner: Calvin, 226