lyS Tlu Book of Cats. 



Here is an account of the death of a famous 

 witch's famous Cat : — 



' ' Ye rats, in triumph elevate your ears ! 

 Exiilt, ye mice ! for Fate's abhorred shears 

 Of Dick's nine lives have slit the Cat- guts nine ; 

 Henceforth he mews 'midst choirs of Cats divine !" 



So sings Mr. Huddesford, in a " Monody on the 

 death of Dick, an Academical Cat," with this 

 .motto : — 



" Mi-Cat inter omnes." 



Hor, Carj7i,^ Lib. i., Ode 12. 



He brings his Cat, Dick, from the Flood, and 

 consequently through Rutterkin, a Cat who was 

 '' cater-cousin to the great-great-great-great-great- 

 great-great-great-great-grandmother of Grimalkin, 

 and first Cat in the Caterie of an old woman, who 

 was tried for bewitching a daughter of the Countess 

 of Rutland, in the beginning of the sixteenth 

 century." The monodist connects him w^ith Cats 

 of great renown in the annals of witchcraft ; a 

 science whereto they have been allied as closely as 

 poor old women, one of whom, it appears, on the 

 authority of an old pamphlet, entitled " Mewesfrom 

 Scotland!' etc., printed in the year 1591, '' confessed 



