from rain. Never in the whole course of our 

 friendship did she suffer herself to become a 

 strictly domestic cat. She loved and trusted 

 human beings, but she did not like their 

 homes. 



S8 Here I must end my plea for the cat. She 

 is often misunderstood, and often scurvily 

 treated by those who are dull enough to reject 

 her affection. Those who accept her offer 

 know that she is 



Vanquished nof, but reconciled^ 

 Free from curb of aught above 

 Save the lovely curb of love. 



And, thus curbed, she too is not without a 

 spark divine. 



V. THE DREAM OF SYLVESTER 

 <8 WHEN the learned and saintly Sylvester 

 not the famous monk of KiefF, whose, 

 name is recorded in history, but a distant 

 and much younger cousin of the same: 

 name, who had dedicated many years 



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