If she was enticed away by artful blandishments, or kidnapped by cruel
violence, we knew not. But I honestly believe the latter. Either way, it
was her fatal beauty that led her to destruction; for, as I have said
before, she was the most perfect creature, the most beautiful Maltese
cat, that I ever beheld in my life! I am sure she never deserted her two
pretty little kittens of her own accord. And if--poor dumb thing--she
was stolen and killed for her beautiful fur, still I say, as I said at
first, she was "more sinned against than sinning."--C. H. GRATTAN, in
_Tit-Bits_.
INDEX.
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Abyssinian cats, 58
Angora cats, 21
Antipathy to cats, 11
Aperient, 151
Archangel blue cat, 66
"Bartholomoeus de Proprietatibus Rerum,"
Extract from, 156
Bewick's "Quadrupeds," Extract from, 166
Black-and-white cats, 68
Black cats, 64
Blue cats, 66
Blue small-banded tabby, 60
"Boduca," Extract from, 199
"Bogey", 37
British wild cat, 38
Brown tabby cats, 48
Canker of ear, 150
Cat and kittens, 109
Catarrh, 148, 152
Catarrhal fevers, 147
Cat as a tormentor, The, 209
Cat-clock, A, 202
"Cat Harris", 216
Cat images, 219
Cat of Shakespeare, The, 193
Cat-racing in Belgium, 218
Cats and fish, 159
Cats and horses, 236
Cats at The Morning Advertiser Office, 88
Cats in Vienna, 88
Cats reared by dogs, 11
Cats take note of time, 9
"Chipperkes", 81
"Chloe", 119
Chocolate Siamese, 74
Cleanliness, 119
Colds, 149
Concerning cats, 170
Coughs, 150
Curious long-haired cat, 34
Cytisin, 153
Daniel's "Rural Sports," Extracts from, 161, 167, 225
Darwin's, Mr. Charles, "Voyage of the Beagle,"
Extract from, 167
Dead cats, 208
Deaf cat, A, 17
"Dinah", 23
Diseases of cats, 147
Distance cats will travel, 10
Distemper, 150, 151
Distemper, Inoculation for, 148
Electricity in cats' fur, 195
"Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports," Extract from, 158
"English Folk-lore," Extracts from, 197, 200
Eye ointment, 152
Feeding cats, 91
First Cat Show, The, 3
Fishing cats, 233
Fleas, 152
Fleet Prison, Debtors in, 90
Fox, Charles James, Anecdote of, 93
Games, 228
General management, 91
Gentleness and kindness, 10
Glossary, 170 to 184
Government cats, 88
"Grammer's Cat and Ours", 237
Habits, 6
Hamilton, Mr. E., Letter to The Field, 169
"Happy Family," The, 12, 213
Harting, Mr. J. E., on the origin of the domestic cat, 162
Heraldry, etc., 210
Hone's "Every-day Book," Extract from, 196
Horses fond of cats, 236
Hybrid cats, 55
Imperial Printing Office, France, Cats in, 88
Inoculation for distemper, 148
Irritation, 152
Jamieson's "Scottish Dictionary," Extracts from, 181
Jealousy of cats, 8
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, and his cat, 161
Killing cats, The law on, 207
Kindness and gentleness, 10
Kittens, 114
"Lambkin", 33
"Lambkin No. 2", 36
Law on cat-killing, The, 207
Long-haired cats, 16
Lost, 240
Lovers of cats, 223
Management, 120
Mange, 149, 152
Manx cats, 80
Mating, 96
Midland Railway, Cats on the staff of the, 89
Mill's "History of the Crusades," Extract from 169
"Mimie" 25
Nevill, Lady Dorothy 74
Nursery rhymes and stories 232
Observation of cats 7
Origin of the domestic cat 162
Performing cats 211
Persian cats 24
Plague of mice 14
Points of Excellence:
Abyssinian 135
Black-and-white, gray-white, red-and-white,
and other colours and white 134
Black, blue, gray, red, or any
self-colour long-haired 142
Blue, silver, light gray, and
white tabby, striped, short-hair 131
Brown and ordinary tabby,
striped, short-hair 128
Brown, blue, silver, light gray,
and white tabby long-haired 144
Chinchilla 136
Chocolate, chestnut, red, or
yellow tabby, striped, short-hair 130
Chocolate, mahogany, red,
and yellow long-haired 145
Manx, or short-tailed 138
Royal Cat of Siam 137
Self-colour, black, blue, gray,
or red short-hair 127
Short-haired, spotted tabbies
of any colour 133
Siamese 137
Tortoiseshell 123
Tortoiseshell-and-white 125
White-and-black, white-and-gray,
white-and-red, white
and any other colour 135
White, long-haired 140
White, short-hair 126
Poison 153
Proverbs 185
Purgative 151
"Puss in Boots" 203
Rats, mice, and cats 15
Remedies 147 to 153
Royal cat of Siam, The 73
Russian cats 30
Salmon's "Compleat English Physician," Extract from 157
Sharpening claws 165
Short-haired white cats 62
Siamese cats 73
Signs 204
"Signs of Foul Weather," Extract from 200
Singular attachments 11
Skin, Irritation of the 152
Sleeping-places 92
Smith's, Mr., prize he-cat 39
Spotted silver tabby 133
Spotted tabbies 54
Strengthening medicines 151
Strutt's "Habits of the Anglo-Normans,"
Extracts from 167, 168
Superstition, 195
"Sylvie", 24
Tabby, derivation of the word, 52
"The Old Lady", 13
"The Tamer Tamed," Extract from, 199
"Tiger", 20
"Tim", 27
Tormentor, The cat as a, 209
Tortoiseshell-and-white cats, 44
Tortoiseshell cats, 39
Trained cats, 12
United States Post Office, Cats in the, 88
Usefulness of cats, 87
Various colours, 84
Vyvyan, Mrs., on Siamese cats, 76
Washing cats, 94
Weather notions, 200
Well-trained cats, 13
White-and-black cats, 70
White cats, 62
Wild cat of Britain, 38, 154
Witchcraft, 195
"Works of Armorie," Extracts from, 157
Worms, 149, 152
"You dreadful man!", 19
THE END.
CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
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