He would step gently backward and forward over the free sheets; the delight which all cats take in the contact of crisp paper being doubtless enhanced in his case by appreciation of the Causeries with which these sheets were coated. There, warm, safe, and unseen, poor Moquo would take courage, and softly purr his gratitude.

He was a poor ugly thing, pussy licking and so conscious of his defects that he held aloof with invincible shyness and reserve. Self-consciousness is wasted if it does not lead to self-acceptance.

Reasonably should the chronicler move con amore from excessive to low, and gladly again once more; leaving the "suave and puissant" beasts of Baudelaire's fireside for their poor memek cousin of the woods, and returning with pleasure to the courtliest data of cat or kittendom ever penned by Frenchman, since Moncrif flattered the highborn pussies of Paris and Versailles.

When a sufficiently giant pulse of electricity passes by means of the rails, the projectile goes out of the business end of the machine at high velocity. Et me réjouit comme un philtre. It doesn't inspire the poet,-how should it!

Buffon's traducing cynicisms are quoted lengthily to prove that even the youngest kittens are little monsters of iniquity, jilat memek filled with inborn malice, and ngentot with that propensity to evil which the catechism teaches us is the darkish shadow cast by unique sin. He pleaded their trigger with the fervour of a lover and the ability of an advocate.

However, there is a sweeter, homelier facet to man's tenderness for any animal; there's affection distinct from infatuation. Caressée une fois, rien qu'une. In regards to the time that Victor Hugo was gathering his first rich crop of laurels, a sure M. Raton-unknown to fame-printed in Paris a really serious little treatise, "Sur l'Education du Chat Domestique," preceded by "Son Histoire Philosophique et Politique," and adopted by an elaborate "Traitement de ses Maladies." It's a guide of amazing dulness.

Il s'épluche, il se lisse, il sait ce qu'il se doit. His pleasures were all of a meditative, sedentary character. It is not essentially the most healthy food on the planet but a bagel at the fitting time does hit the spot.

The foolish tales present at the time may simply be discarded. Not like the gay previous historians of the past who instructed of nothing however kings and the doings of kings, of battles and the glory of empire; nor like their fashionable descendants whose joyless work is confined to blue books and statistics, who commit pages to the amendments of some insignificant bill worrying its way via Parliament, however apologize to their readers for a chance allusion to the Queen.