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Title: Lords of the Housetops
Thirteen Cat Tales

Author: Various

Editor: Carl Van Vechten

Release Date: September 26, 2009 [EBook #30092]

Language: English

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LORDS
OF THE HOUSETOPS
THIRTEEN CAT TALES

_BOOKS BY
CARL VAN VECHTEN_

INTERPRETERS
IN THE GARRET
THE MUSIC OF SPAIN
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
MUSIC AND BAD MANNERS
THE TIGER IN THE HOUSE
LORDS OF THE HOUSETOPS
MUSIC AFTER THE GREAT WAR

WITH A PREFACE BY
CARL VAN VECHTEN

_C'est l'esprit familier du lieu;
Il juge, il preside, il inspire
Toutes choses dans son empire;
Peut-etre est-il fee, est-il dieu._

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.

NEW YORK ALFRED . A . KNOPF MCMXXI

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_These stories I have collected to amuse
Avery Hopwood_

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to the following authors and publishers for permission to
use the stories contained in this book:

Harper and Brothers and Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman for _The Cat_, from
_Understudies_ (copyright 1901 by Harper and Brothers).

Houghton Mifflin Co., for _Zut_, from _Zut and Other Parisians_
(copyright 1903 by Guy Wetmore Carryl).

E. P. Dutton and Co., for _A Psychical Invasion_, from _John Silence_.

Doubleday, Page and Co., and Booth Tarkington for Gipsy, from _Penrod
and Sam_ (copyright 1916 by Doubleday, Page and Co.).

Harper and Brothers and the Mark Twain Estate for _Dick Baker's Cat_,
from _Roughing It_ (copyright 1871-1899 by the American Publishing Co.;
copyright 1899 by Samuel L. Clemens; copyright 1913 by Clara
Gabrilowitsch).

Harper and Brothers for _Madame Jolicoeur's Cat_, from _From the South
of France_ (copyright 1912 by Harper and Brothers).

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