Category: Humour

Pussy and Her Language

[Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors in the original have been corrected without note. References to "Hospice du Chats" have been retained as they appear in the original, despite the grammatical error.]

Chapters

2. Part 2

At first he showed contrition, but when he discovered the new Tom, who he supposed had assumed his duties in the household, he did not become an Enoch Arden, but, with fire in h...

3. Part 3

These two dogs were the terror of the Cats in the neighborhood, and it was no unusual occurrence to see the feline skurrying away from our "farm," with both sky terriers at thei...

1. Part 1

[Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors in the original have been corrected without note. References to "Hospice du Chats" have been retained as they appear in the original,...

7. Part 7

"One evening there was no one in the kitchen. Cook had gone upstairs and left a bowl of dough to raise by the fire. Shortly after the Cat rushed up after her, mewing and making...

5. Part 5

The brain of the Cat so closely resembles that of man as to force the unwilling admission from anatomists and physiologists that in form and substance they bear so close and str...

4. Part 4

It is silly in man to assume that all he sees is but the effect of law. It is more sensible to assume that there is an intelligence behind law and matter. The intelligence shown...

6. Part 6

Prof. E.P. Thompson, in his valuable treatise, entitled "Passions of Animals," gives to the feline race the following characteristics: "Perception, touch, taste, smell, hearing,...

8. Part 8

Concerning the sense of the arrangement of sounds for the numbers I have nothing to say, for I cannot account for their selection, but the musical sweetness of the sounds in con...

9. Part 9

Beautiful instruments, susceptible of the finest grades of expression and shading, and capable of great sonority and power without developing the crashing qualities so frequent...