END OF VOL. I.
CATS.
CHAPTER I.[8]
ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE DOMESTIC CAT.
Gentle Reader,—I throw myself on your leniency. The other day my publisher beckoned me into his private office, behind the shop—a sanctum chiefly remarkable for the solemn air of dusty gloom, and the aristocratic cobwebbiness, which prevails in it; and says that gentleman to me,—
“You must give us a chapter on the origin and antiquity of the D. C.”