Concerning Some Historic Cats 



for his loss, or, rather, more affected by it, than any 

 of us would like to confess." 



Josh Billings called his favorite cat William, be- 

 cause he considered no shorter name fitted to the 

 dignity of his character. "Poor old man," he re- 

 marked one day, to a friend, " he has fits now, so I 

 call him Fitz-William." 



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