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A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals

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AND OTHER ANIMATED ANIMALS — BY — J. G. FRANCIS — THE CENTURY CO. NEW YORK

 

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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.


Content

A BOOK OF CHEERFUL CATS


Some Fun with a Toy Spider.





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.”


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

 




Quits.


Euchred!


Study of Hedgehog Stealing Apple.



The Spring Curtain. A drama in five acts.

1. Which? 2. The Choice.

 

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

 

5. Revenge.



 

 

 

 


Late!

Pictures with a Moral for Boys and Dogs. I.

 

II. III.


A Queer Barber-Shop.

Scene I. Scene II.

Story of the Catnip Ball. The Beginning.

 

The End.







A Needless Apprehension.

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


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