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Title: The Book of the Cat

Author: Mabel Humphrey and Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall

Release Date: July 10, 2007 [eBook #22043]

Language: English

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THE BOOK OF THE CAT

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

With Facsimiles of Drawings in Colour by

ELISABETH F. BONSALL

And with Stories and Verses Written for the Pictures by

MABEL HUMPHREY

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1903, by Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Published in October, 1903.

[Illustration]

Snowball and Ebony.

Down at my feet on the red tiles in front of a roaring great fire sit a
great black cat and a soft white Angora pussy. They are named Ebony and
Snowball and are as different in nature as they are in colour, but are
devoted friends for all that. Possibly _because_ of it! for where Snowball
is timid, Ebony will bravely lead the way; while if Ebony is cross,
Snowball will purr and coax and cuddle until he gradually