Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors in the originalhave been corrected without note. References to "Hospice du Chats" havebeen retained as they appear in the original, despite the grammatical error.
PUSSY
AND
Her Language
BY
MARVIN R. CLARK.
Including a Paper on the Wonderful Discovery
of the Cat Language.
BY
ALPHONSE LEON GRIMALDI, F.R.S., etc.
Copyright 1895
By MARVIN R. CLARK
CHAPTERS.
I.—"IT WAS THE CAT."
II.—A LITTLE INNOCENT WHO KNOWS THE FAMILY SECRETS.
III.—LIKE UNTO OURSELVES.
IV.—NELLY AND TOM.
V.—MEMORY AND INTELLIGENCE.
VI.—FRIENDS OF THE CAT.
VII.—SOME REMARKABLE TRUE STORIES.
VIII.—HOSPICE DU CHATS.
IX.—ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS BY THE CAT.
X.—PROFESSOR GRIMALDI'S WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
XI.—SIGNS AND SOUNDS.
XII.—DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGES.
XIII.—LANGUAGE OF DIVINE ORIGIN.
XIV.—POWER OF SPEECH IN THE FELINE.
XV.—ILLUSTRATIVE STORIES.
XVI.—SUPERIORITY OF THE CAT OVER OTHER QUADRUMINA.
XVII.—INTELLECTUAL POWER OF THE CAT.
XVIII.—SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CAT.
XIX.—GENEROSITY, CUNNING AND CAMARADERIE.
XX.—VOWELS AND LIQUIDS PREDOMINATING.
XXI.—CAT WORDS IN COMMON USE.
XXII.—A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF WORDS.
XXIII.—A MUSICAL LANGUAGE.
XXIV.—THE IMPORTANCE OF SIGNS.
PUSSY AND HER LANGUAGE.
I.
“IT WAS THE CAT.”
When, in the fable, that humorous progenitor of the human species,according to that slicker, slyer and still more humorous, practicaljoker, Darwin, the monkey, cast about him in a sudden emergency forsome useful utensil adequate to the purpose of pulling his chestnutsout of the fire, his selfish ambition was rewarded by the sight of noless distinguished a person than the Cat. Notwithstanding the piteousprotests and flowing tears of Pussy, she was forced into the serviceof the monkey, and ever after there lived in the memory of man thatwonderful story, from which we get the expressive saying of "making acat's paw" of anything or anybody.
The cruelty of the act and the subsequent greed of the