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TALES FROM CATLAND.
TALES FROM CATLAND,
FOR
LITTLE KITTENS.
BY
AN OLD TABBY.
With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS.
MDCCCLII.
BOSTON:
THURSTON, TORRY, AND EMERSON,
Printers, Devonshire Street.
TO THE
KITTENS OF ENGLAND,
THE FOLLOWING PAGES
ARE VERY AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,
BY THEIR
SINCERE FRIEND AND WELL-WISHER,
Tabitha Grimalkin.
Contents
THE THREE CATS.
THE DISCONTENTED CAT.
THE WISHING-DAY.
TALES FROM CATLAND.
THE THREE CATS.ToC
Many hundred years ago, in the good old times of the fairies, therelived a young princess in a very grand palace. Its walls were of thepurest white marble, the doors were of orange-wood, the window-frameswere of gold, and the furniture of the rooms was of the most costlydescription. The princess's drawing-room was hung with beautifultapestry, the curtains were of the richest crimson silk, all overgolden flowers, the mirrors reached from the floor to the ceiling, andthe chairs were of ebony inlaid with precious stones. And the princesshad two hundred and four best gowns, some [6]of cloth of gold, some ofsilver tissue; besides a great many others, nearly as good, that shewore every day.
But my story has not so much to do with the princess, as with hercats, for she had two; an elderly one, called Glumdalkin, and a veryfrolicsome young one whose