Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Why were cats created? I do not mean this as a sceptical question, doubtful of any end in their creation; no answer about adaptation and environment would be adequate, nor any statement of specific use. For with all the higher animals--that is to say, with all the animals one...
Why were cats created? I do not mean this as a sceptical question, doubtful of any end in their creation; no answer about adaptation and environment would be adequate, nor any s...
2. Part 2Pasht was hysterically affectionate when I saw her next morning; she said “a - - - ow,” and clung on to my dress, and climbed up on to my shoulder and refused to leave me, and w...
3. Part 3Ever since I was a very small child I had longed to possess a pair of budgerrygars. There was a tradition of three live ones once in our family, in proof whereof my nurse could...
4. Part 4He was wonderfully quick and obedient; he learnt to shut the door, play the piano, shake hands, catch things from his nose, and lie dead, in no time. He was so gentle that one c...
5. Part 5After these two came Enid, Elaine, and Geraint. Enid was the first to have a baby, and she had only one--a fat round one, which grew and prospered until one day when he suddenly...