Table of Contents CHAPTER I CONCERNING THE "PRETTY LADY"CHAPTER II CONCERNING MY OTHER CATSCHAPTER III CONCERNING OTHER PEOPLE'S CATSCHAPTER IV CONCERNING STILL OTHER PEOPLE'S CATSCHAPTER V CONCERNING SOME HISTORIC CATSCHAPTER VI CONCERNING CATS IN ENGLANDCHAPTER VII CONCERNING CAT CLUBS AND CAT SHOWSCHAPTER VIII CONCERNING HIGH−BRED CATS IN AMERICACHAPTER IX CONCERNING CATS IN POETRYCHAPTER X CONCERNING CAT ARTISTSCHAPTER XI CONCERNING CAT HOSPITALS AND REFUGESCHAPTER XII CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF CATSCHAPTER XIII CONCERNING VARIETIES OF CATSCHAPTER XIV CONCERNING CAT LANGUAGE
CHAPTER I. CONCERNING THE "PRETTY LADY" She was such a Pretty Lady, and gentle withal; so quiet and eminently ladylike in her behavior, and yet dignified and haughtily reserved as a duchess. Still it is better, under certain circumstances, to be a cat than to be a duchess. And no duchess of the realm ever had more faithful retainers or half so abject subjects.
Do not tell me that cats never love people; that only places have real hold upon their affections. The Pretty Lady was contented wherever I, her most humble slave, went with her. She migrated with me from boarding−house to sea−shore cottage; then to regular housekeeping; up to the mountains for a summer, and back home, a long day's journey on the railway; and her attitude was always "Wheresoever thou goest I