The cats' Arabian nights, or, King Grimalkum

BY ABBY MORTON DIAZ
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED
BY FRANCIS, BOZ, PALMER COX, AND OTHERS
BOSTON
D. LOTHROP COMPANY
Copyright, 1881,
D. Lothrop Company.
How It Happened.
One evening when a company of children and older people were looking at funny cat-pictures and telling cat-stories, a little ten-year-old girl asked: “Why can there not be a Cats’ Arabian Nights Story Book?”
“There would have to be a Cat King, or Emperor, or Sultan,” said her next older sister.
“And a Cat Queen, or Empress, or Sultaness,” said their cousin Joe, the sailor.
“And she would have to go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, telling stories in order to save her own life,” said their cousin Lucia.