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CONCERNING CATS

My Own and Some Others

By Helen M. Winslow

Editor of "The Club Woman"



To the

"PRETTY LADY"

WHO NEVER BETRAYED A SECRET, BROKE A PROMISE, OR
PROVED AN UNFAITHFUL FRIEND; WHO HAD
ALL THE VIRTUES AND NONE OF
THE FAILINGS OF HER SEX

I Dedicate this Volume






CONTENTS

CHAPTER

 I.    CONCERNING THE PRETTY LADY.
 II.   CONCERNING MY OTHER CATS.
 III.  CONCERNING OTHER PEOPLE'S CATS.
 IV.   CONCERNING STILL OTHER PEOPLE'S CATS.
 V.    CONCERNING SOME HISTORIC CATS.
 VI.   CONCERNING CATS IN ENGLAND.
 VII.  CONCERNING CAT CLUBS AND CAT SHOWS.
 VIII. CONCERNING HIGH-BRED CATS IN AMERICA.
 IX.   CONCERNING CATS IN POETRY.
 X.    CONCERNING CAT ARTISTS.
 XI.   CONCERNING CAT HOSPITALS AND REFUGES.
 XII.  CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF CATS.
 XIII. CONCERNING VARIETIES OF CATS.
 XIV.  CONCERNING CAT LANGUAGE.






_Concerning Cats_




CHAPTER I

CONCERNING THE "PRETTY LADY"


She was such a Pretty Lady, and gentle withal; so quiet and eminently
ladylike in her behavior, and yet dignified and haughtily reserved as a
duchess. Still it is better, under certain circumstances, to be a cat
than to be a duchess. And no duchess of the realm ever had more faithful