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Title: The Adventures of a Cat
And a Fine Cat too!

Author: Alfred Elwes

Illustrator: Harrison Weir

Release Date: May 24, 2010 [EBook #32518]

Language: English

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THE ADVENTURES OF A CAT
AND A FINE CAT TOO!

[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF A LADY.]

THE ADVENTURES OF A CAT
AND A FINE CAT TOO!

By ALFRED ELWES,
AUTHOR OF 'THE ADVENTURES OF A BEAR,'
'THE ADVENTURES OF A DOG,' ETC.

With Eight Illustrations by Harrison Weir.

[Illustration]

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PREFACE.

In selecting the biography of another animal from the Archives of
Caneville, for the entertainment of a very different race, I thought I
could not do better than fix upon "The Cat;" and as the celebrated Miss
Minette Gattina, the historian of poor Job, had bequeathed some of her
own memoirs to her native City, furnished, too, with an Introduction by
herself, I at once seized upon the materials thus afforded me, and
converted them into their present form. I know not whether they will
enjoy the same favour which the Public has deigned to accord to the
veracious story of "A Bear," or the simple "Adventures of a Dog." Time
will show whether these true memoirs will be as attractive to youthful
readers as the other tales of the feline race, from time immemorial such
standard favourites; whether they will have even a chance of success,
after the story of that strong-minded Puss, who trod down the ignorant,
and made her own and master's fortune in a pair of top-boots; or that
other famous tabby,[1] so intimately associated with City annals and the
name of Whittington, whose powers of leading her proprietor to wealth
were no le