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THE BOOK OF THE CAT. 



the Maine cats, except through the shows and 

 a few that I have owned myself, which have 

 not been shown much or proved remarkable 

 in any way ; but among the gems that have 

 shown out with more or less brilliancy when 

 on the bench we find " Cosie," a brown tabby, 

 taking first and special for best cat in show 

 in New York, 1895. Mrs. Lambert brings 



now somewhat scattered, but all showing 

 great, strength, form, bone, and sinew. 



Mrs. Chapman's ' ; Cusie Maxine " a fine 

 type of brown tabby, dam of " Young Ham- 

 let," who won over his sire " Prince Rupert " 

 was also a Maine cat. 



Mr. Jones, of The Cat Journal, has from 

 time to time had some fine brown tabbies of 



"YELLOW H. 14 BEAUTY." 



OWNED BY MRS. STAPLES. 



out " Patrique " in New York in 1896 blue, 

 and a nice one. 



"King Max" first brought out by Mrs. 

 Taylor won in Boston first in 1897-98-99, only 

 to be beaten by his sire " Donald " in 1900. 



Mrs. Mix has shown a fine Persian type 

 from Maine called the " Dairy Maid." I 

 believe she has also " Imogene," from the 

 same place a tortoiseshell. 



Mrs. Julius Copperberg's " Petronius," of 

 whom we all expected great things, was from 

 a line of creams coming well down from a 

 fine cream brought from some Mediterranean 

 port by one Captain Condon about fifteen 

 years ago. I have secured for friends several 

 kittens from his cat's descendants, which are 



the Maine stock, winners at some of the 

 larger shows. 



A fair representative of the whites, who has 

 acquitted himself well at the various shows 

 in competition with large classes, is " Swamp- 

 scott," owned by Mrs. F. E. Smith, of Chicago. 

 He comes from Mrs. Georgia Thomas's white 

 cats at Camden, Maine, his maternal great- 

 grandsire coining from France. 



" Midnight " a younger black cat, winning 

 second at Cincinnati to a cat from New Hamp- 

 shire in better coat, and second in Chicago 

 in 1901 in large classes has since become a 

 gelding and pet of Mrs. J. J. Hooker, of Cin- 

 cinnati. He comes from a line of blacks 

 owned by a retired sea-captain named Ryan, 



