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The Great Small Cat, and Others

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Jiminy Christmas: His First Appearance Frontispiece

He was probably a graceless vagabond, born in the gutter, with no pretensions to breeding or even good looks.

FACING PAGE

The Great Small Cat 8

Although the small stray was minus all signs of pedigree, she held her head high and was accorded the respect and good treatment due a lady.

Thursday 34

As she never attained the full stature of an ordinary cat, she always looked but half-grown, but was the very perfection of dainty symmetry, her coat a solid black, almost blue in its depths.

The Cat 52

Handsome, shining and saucy, the kitten had grown into the most splendid bigness of his race: all muscle and nerve, unusually broad of chest and looking as if bred to the mountain fastness and able to endure all sorts of pioneer hardships.

Aïda and Saadi 72

"Oh, lady! You do not suspect us of having seen any of your birds this morning?"

Marooned 84

Neither disappointment nor ugly temper had broken his fierce sense of injury or his indomitable spirit.

Maida 102

In long-suffering patience Maida would stretch herself in a streak of sunshine and survey the riotously incorrigible mites, indulging in their favorite pastime of playing tag all over her body.

Jiminy Christmas, the Free Spirit 120

Born free, he kept his own wanton will free from enslavement to the end, living his own life in honor and honesty in an out-doors all his own.

THE GREAT SMALL CAT

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