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0/ Whittingtoji's Cat, and ano- 

 ther Cat that visited Strange 

 Countries. 



S no work about 

 Cats could be 

 complete with- 

 out the story of 

 Dick Whittington, from 

 the first moment I had made up my mind to write 

 this book, I had also made up my mind to look up 

 the best authorities upon the subject— to write Whit- 

 tington's Cat's life, and to give her a chapter all to 

 herself Having come to this conclusion, the ques- 

 tion naturally arose where were the authorities. I 

 made search, I read deeply, but I gathered small 



