CHAPTER VIII 



CONCERNING HIGH-BRED CATS IN AMERICA 



ONE of the first American women to start a 

 "cattery" in this country was Mrs. Clinton 

 Locke, wife of the rector of Grace Church, Chi- 

 cago. As a clergyman's wife she has done a great 

 deal of good among the various charities of her 

 city simply from the income derived from her ken- 

 nels. She has been very generous in gifts of her 

 kittens to other women who have made the raising of 

 fine cats a means to add to a slender income, and has 

 sent beautiful cats all over the United States, to Mex- 

 ico, and even to Germany. Under her hospitable 

 roof at 2825 Indiana Avenue is a cat family of great 

 distinction. First, there is The Beadle, a splendid 

 blue male with amber eyes, whose long pedigree 

 appears in the third volume of the N. C. C. S. B. 

 under the number 1872, sired by Glaucus, and his 

 dam was Hawthorne Bounce. His pedigree is 

 traced for many generations. He was bred by Mrs. 

 Dean of Hawthomedene, Slough, England. The 

 Beadle took first prize at the cat show held in Chi- 

 cago in 1896. He also had honorable mention at two 

 cat shows in England when a kitten, under the name 



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