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Title: The true philosopher and other cat tales
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: Boston, The Four seas company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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mallcoin to another dark man owning a few large cagesfull of cats of every size and color. Far from struggling to escape, the kitten was de-lighted at the change, for his was a precocious wis-dom, and he saw bright potentialities in this new wayof life. Opportunity never knocks twice, thoughthe, and with stoical self-control resigned his lean lit-tle body to the dark hands that washed, dried andcombed. What amply repaid him for these distaste-ful ablutions was the food, wholesome and sufficient,which always appeared soon after hunger, lowered tothe feline vision by those same dark hands: Whatlovely swill, was the kittens inward comment, when,on the evening of the first day, the plates descended.Manna! fervently ejaculated an elderly puss, erst-while rat-catcher to a curate. The kitten made the most of his meals, and perceiv-ing no cause for haste, the other cats being identicallyengaged, chewed well and digested tranquilly, growingfatter and sleeker daily, so that he soon drew the at-
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KIDNAPPED HIM ACCORDINGLY AND OTHER CAT TALES 45 tention of the rest by his comely appearance and mani-fest health. Had he been of a responsive dispositionhe might easily have been the friend of every cat inthe cage; but like many endowed with the instinct forsuccess and advancement, he was also secretive andaloof, absorbing himself in the business of eating,sleeping and resting, with just enough exercise to keepin trim. Thus did a year pass, at the end of which time it wasperceived of the dark man, that here indeed was avery handsome cat, worthy to be sent to the Cat andDog Show; so, entering him under the name of Prince,he packed him off to the Madison Square Gardens,where, to make a long story short, our hero foundhimself in very cramped quarters, thick with zoologicalsmells and lined with unsympathetic straw. The phy-sical discomfort, the deafening cries of his neighborsand the tramp of human hundreds confused Prince atfirst; but his instincts speedily came to the rescue:Its an il

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