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amongst animal appearance awards beautiful become black cat blue kittens blue Persians bone bred breeders brown tabby cat fanciers cat fancy cat shows cat's cattery Champion chinchilla coat colour cream cross Crystal Palace Crystal Palace show dark disease distemper Ealing ears entries exhibited exhibitors feline female give given hair handsome Harrison Weir head judge Lady Decies Lady Marcus Beresford Landor legs light litter long-haired cats Louis Wain lovely male Manx cats Marcus Beresford mated Miss mother National Cat Club neuter never orange cats orange eyes owner pale perfect Persian cats pets Photo points puss pussies queen Romaldkirk round seen shaded silver short-haired cats show pen Siamese cats silver cats silver tabby sire smoke special prizes specimens stripes stud cat tabby cats tabby markings tail tion tortoiseshell variety white cats white Persian winners winning yellow
Popular passages
Page 7 - ... the seller was to forfeit to the buyer the third part of its value. If any one stole or killed the cat that guarded the prince's granary, he was to forfeit a milch ewe, its fleece and lamb ; or as much wheat as, when poured on the cat suspended by its tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former.
Page 15 - Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been ? I've been to London to see the Queen. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there ? I frightened a little mouse under the chair.
Page 19 - Tis infamy to serve a hag; Cats are thought imps, her broom a nag! And boys against our lives combine, Because, 'tis said, your Cats have nine.
Page 1 - There is no. other explanation of the origin of fever in this world. But there was in the vessel an enemy no less harmful ; this was the mouse. The companions of Noah called his attention to the fact that it would be impossible for them to preserve their provisions and their clothes intact. After the patriarch had addressed renewed supplications to the Most High, the lion sneezed, and a cat ran out of his nostrils. From that time forth the mouse became so timid that it contracted the habit of hiding...