This book was written by Margaret Benson, an English author and Egyptologist best known for her excavation of the Precinct of Mut. Despite her achievements in Egyptology, the current publication has no relation to her professional work - instead, it focuses on her admiration of cats through tales that she weaves; be it feral cats or house cats.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

I remember one pathetic scene on a rainy evening in late summer, when the kittens of the time were playing about the room, and Persis came in wet and draggled with something in her mouth. We thought it was a dead bird, and though regretting the fact, did not hinder her when she deposited it before her favourite kitten, a shy, grey creature, and retired to the lap of a forbearing friend to make her toilet. But while she was thus engaged we saw that the thing she had brought in was a shivering little bird, a belated fledgling, alive and unhurt.

Excerpt from The Soul of a Cat, and Other Stories But in the first case, too, it would seem to be a relevant point to ask which dog and which cat and to those who profess not to like the character of the cat one might put first the counter-question as to whether they like the character of the human being. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.