Concerning Cats 



dog-fanciers in this country do with their fancy 

 pets. Some account of the Cat Club Stud Book and 

 Register will be found in the next chapter. Queen 

 Victoria, and the Princess of Wales, and indeed many 

 members of the nobility are cat-lovers, and doubtless 

 this fact influences the general sentiment in Eng- 

 land. 



Among the most devoted of Pussy's English 

 admirers is the Hon. Mrs. McLaren Morrison, who is 

 the happy possessor of some of the most perfect dogs 

 and cats that have graced the bench. She lives 

 at Kepwick Park, in her stately home in Yorkshire — 

 a lovely spot, commanding a delightful view of pic- 

 turesque Westmoreland on one side and on the other 

 three surrounded and sheltered by hills and moors. 

 Some of her pets go with her, however, to her flat 

 in Queen Anne's Mansions, and even to her residence 

 in Calcutta. It is at Kepwick Park that Mrs. McLaren 

 Morrison has her celebrated " catteries." Here there 

 are magnificent blue, black and silver and red Persians ; 

 snowy white, blue-eyed beauties; grandly marked 

 English tabbies ; handsome blue Russians, with their 

 gleaming yellow-topaz eyes ; some Chinese cats, with 

 their long, edge-shaped heads, bright golden eyes, 

 and shiny, short-haired black fur; and a pair of 

 Japanese pussies, pure white and absolutely without 

 tails. One of the handsomest specimens of the feline 

 race ever seen is her blue Persian, Champion Monarch, 

 who, as a kitten in 1893, won the gold medal at the 



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