CHAPTER VIII 



SOME CATS OF FRANCE 



&quot; Ella jouait avec sa chatte ; 

 Et c etait merveille de voir 

 La main blanche et la blanche patte 

 S ebattre dans 1 ombre du soir.&quot; 



TN the year 1865 ?ijngc tie paix of Fontainebleau, 

 from whom several householders had demanded 

 legal protection for their cats, pronounced this 

 admirable judgment. 



&quot; That the domestic cat is not a thing of naught, 

 but the property of its master, and, as such, entitled 

 to the shelter of the law ; 



&quot;That the utility of the cat as a destroyer of 

 mischievous rodents being indisputable, equity de 

 mands the extension of indulgence to an animal 

 which the law tolerates and protects ; 



