## A BOOK OF

# CHEERFUL CATS

## AND OTHER ANIMATED ANIMALS

#### BY

### J. G. FRANCIS

### 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.

| 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

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Some Fun with a Toy Spider.

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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.”

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

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Quits.

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Euchred!

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Study of Hedgehog Stealing Apple.

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The Spring Curtain. A drama in five acts.

1. Which? 2. The Choice.

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

[Pg 21]

5. Revenge.

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Late!

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Pictures with a Moral for Boys and Dogs. I.

[Pg 31]

II. III.

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A Queer Barber-Shop.

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Scene I. Scene II.

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Story of the Catnip Ball. The Beginning.

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The End.

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A Needless Apprehension.

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

[Pg 44]

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

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