Extracts from "Our Cats, by Harrison Weir"

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  • Let any one have a plague of rats and mice, as I once had, and let them be
  • Delivered therefrom by cats, as I was, and they will have a lasting and kind regard for the

In our urban and suburban houses what should we do without cats? In our sitting or bedrooms, our libraries, in our kitchens and storerooms, our farms, barns, and rickyards, in our docks, our granaries, our ships, and our wharves, in our corn markets, meat markets, and other places too numerous to mention, how useful they are! In our ships, however, the rats oft set them at defiance; still they are of great service.