Concerning Cats 



Is there more to be said on this ever-interesting 

 subject of cats? Yes, plenty. But I shall only 

 quote from Mr. Thomas Janvier: — 



" It will be a long step toward winning back the 

 Golden Age, when the cats shall come to their own 

 again by restoration to their rightful place as the 

 honored intimates of men. And so it is that who- 

 ever helps in hastening the advent of this halcyon 

 philo-feline era, whereof the outcome must be a sub- 

 stantial increase of human happiness, deserves the 

 gratitude of the world at large." 



And again : " It is a happy fact that even the least 

 of us — drawing closer as did the blessed Saint Fran- 

 cis of Assisi to our brethren, the beasts and the 

 fishes and the birds — may in some measure forestall 

 the millennium in our lives. And also it is true that 

 in so doing we may at the same time hasten, by a 

 fractional part, the revival universal of the gracious 

 epoch when man and the so-called lower orders of 

 animals once more shall be on terms of cordial fel- 

 lowship; when, most joyous of all the joyous sights 

 of that reunion, Homo and Felis shall stand friendly 

 together, hand clasping paw." 



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