lO The Book of Cats. 



practised. In the Covent Garden Journal for l8lO 

 the O. P. Riots are thus spoken of : — " Mr. Kemble 

 made his appearance in the costume of ' Macbeth,' 

 and, amid vollies of hissing, hooting, groans, and 

 cat-calls, seemed as though he meant to speak a 

 steril and pointless addressa nnounced for the oc- 

 casion." 



In book iii. chap. vi. of Joseph Andrews^ occurs 

 this passage : — " You would have seen cities in em- 

 broidery transplanted from the boxes to the pit, 

 whose ancient inhabitants were exalted to the 

 galleries, where they played upon cat-calls." 



In Lloyd's Law Student we find : — 



" By law let others strive to gain renown ! 

 Florio's a gentleman, a man o' th' town. 

 He nor courts clients, or the law regarding, 

 Hurries from Nando's down to Covent Garden. 

 Zethe's a scholar — mark him in the pit, 

 With critic Cat-call sound the stops of wit." 



In Chetwood's History of the Stage (ly^l), there is 

 a story of a sea-officer who was much plagued by 

 "a couple of sparks, prepared with their offensive 

 instruments, vulgarly termed Cat-calls;" and de- 

 scribes how " the squeak was stopped in the middle 

 by a blow from the officer, which he gave with so 

 strong a will that his child's trumpet was struck 

 through his cheek." 



