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Title: The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: James, Robert Kent, (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: Boston, James bros.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l projecting from its sides inward,which, naturalists say, is a provision against concussionof the brain. A lady who lives near the Jardin des Plantes,c or old Parisian Zoo, is a providence to the stray cats of her neighborhood She feedsdaily a hundred at the Bercy wine market, where theyare allowed to live in the cellars. This lady believes inthe transmigration of souls, and says she feels as if shewas formerly incarnate in a woman who hated animals.Her extreme sensibility to their sufferings is, she alsofeels, the punishment meted to her. She has in an out-house a number of mutilated and sick cats that she res-cued. Another lady attends to the cats in the Palaisde Justice, the Central markets, the prefecture of policeand the Sorbonne. There are thirty cats at the Palaisde Justice. They are in the habit of being regularly fed.When anything prevents their benefactress coming inthe nick of time they go out to meet her, and follow herto the court at the west side of the Palais. A number
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FACTS AND FANCIES OF THE CAT. 75 of policemen witness her arrival, and help. She ispleased to think that she has awakened a spirit of hu-manity in the police force. Policemen who know herare loth to destroy cats, or to pass them on to vivisectors. Falstaff once declared that he was as melan-Talcs cn°ly as a gib cat — that is to say, an old cat.The cat is supposed to have originated in Persia,and some have assigned pers as the origin of puss.In Lorraine, if parents wish to discourage the addressesof a young man to their daughter, they send him a kit-ten. But sometimes love laughs at kittens as well aslocksmiths. Shylock lived at a time when there was avery strong prejudice against pussy, yet he seems not tohave been tinged with the superstition of the period, forhe speaks of her as the harmless, necessary cat. Ac-cording to Australian mythology, the moon was formerlya cat, which fell in love with a mans wife, was discoveredand beaten by the injured husband and ran away andhas been w

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