The Soul of a Cat, and Other Stories

Chapter 24: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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About This Book

A collection of short stories and sketches portrays animals—especially cats—through characterful vignettes that combine anecdote, observation, and reflective essay. Individual narratives follow particular creatures through affection, jealousy, illness, and encounters with humans, while observers try to interpret behaviour and motive. The pieces weave scene-rich description with philosophical questioning about instinct, reason, and the moral status of animals, suggesting sympathy and revaluation of familiar maxims. Illustrations and photographs accompany many entries, reinforcing intimate portraiture of each animal and the human feelings they provoke.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Unusual, archaic and obsolete spellings and word usage have been maintained as in the original book. Obvious printing errors have been fixed as detailed below. The Table of Contents was expanded to cover portions of the book other than the stories. The cover was produced by the transcriber from materials in the book. The cover is hereby placed in the public domain.

The placement of the drawings of cats by Madame Ronner made more sense in the printed book, where they filled blank space. I have shrunk them a little so that they are not distracting.

Details of the changes:

Page 35	asparagus bed; the walked[**walk] quickened as he got nearer,
Page 79	it as clearly; if [**he] has done well, he goes
Page 84	to give it board and longing[**lodging], and it surely