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Title: A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals

Author: J. G. Francis

Release date: October 25, 2009 [eBook #30328]
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Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BOOK OF CHEERFUL CATS AND OTHER ANIMATED ANIMALS ***

A BOOK OF

CHEERFUL CATS

AND OTHER ANIMATED ANIMALS

BY

J. G. FRANCIS

 

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THE CENTURY CO. NEW YORK

Copyright,
1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1890, 1892, 1903,
by Elsie W. Francis

 

Printed in U.S.A.

Some Cat-land fancies, drawn and dressed
To cheer your mind when it’s depressed.

Content
Page
Some Fun with a Toy Spider 1
The Tea-Party 2
A Musical Evening 3
The Giraffe Ride 4-5
A Very Happy Family 6
A Dutiful Parent 7
A Case of Highway Robbery 8-9
“They didn’t have a Penny” 10
The Reformed Lion 11
Quits 12
The Genial Grimalkin 13
Euchred! 14
The Bicycle Ride 15
Study of Hedgehog Stealing Apple 16
The Lion in the Barber-Shop 17
The Bald Eagle and the Barber 18
The Spring Curtain 19-21
“’T is a Perfect Picnic Day!” 22
“A Tam o’ Shanter Dog” 23
The Donkey and his Company 24-28
Late! 29
Pictures with a Moral for Boys and Dogs 30-31
YE Joyful Owl 32
A Queer Barber-Shop 33
The Cat and the Cream 34
Story of the Catnip Ball 35-36
The Prickly Pig, the Pug and Pard 37
Maternal Counsel 38
Coasting Cats 39
The Elephant Juggler 40
A Sea Change 41
A Medical Opinion 42
A Needless Apprehension 43
The Cat-o’-Nine-Tails 44
A Happy New Year 45

A BOOK OF CHEERFUL CATS

Some Fun with a Toy Spider.

A DUTIFUL PARENT.

Cried a cat to his wife, “See, my dear,
The superlative Circus is here!
With the children we’ll go,—’tis our duty, you know,
Their young minds to enlighten and cheer.”

Said a Cat to his sons, “I should deem
This blithe Picture-Book Boy carried cream.”

 

Quits.

Euchred!

Study of Hedgehog Stealing Apple.

The Spring Curtain. A drama in five acts.

1. Which? 2. The Choice.

 

3. The Rivals. 4. “Ha, the Spring Curtain!”

 

5. Revenge.

 

 

 

 

Late!

Pictures with a Moral for Boys and Dogs. I.

 

II. III.

A Queer Barber-Shop.

Scene I. Scene II.

Story of the Catnip Ball. The Beginning.

 

The End.

A Needless Apprehension.

A shipwrecked Spoonbill always has a shock
When he sees a Wigbird wading towards his rock.

It makes a Cat-o’-Nine-Tails simply smile,
When a Peacock tries the Neighbors to beguile.