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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30328 ***
+
+Transcriber's Note: Characters following ^ are superscript.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A BOOK OF
+ CHEERFUL CATS
+ AND OTHER
+ ANIMATED ANIMALS
+
+ BY J. G. FRANCIS
+
+
+
+
+ A BOOK OF
+ CHEERFUL CATS
+ AND OTHER ANIMATED ANIMALS
+
+ BY
+ J. G. FRANCIS
+
+
+ THE CENTURY CO. NEW YORK
+
+
+
+
+Copyright, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887,
+1890, 1892, 1903, by ELSIE W. FRANCIS
+
+
+Printed in U.S.A.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    Some Cat-land fancies, drawn and dressed
+      To cheer your mind when it's depressed.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CONTENTS]
+
+
+                                           Page
+ SOME FUN WITH A TOY SPIDER                   1
+ THE TEA-PARTY                                2
+ A MUSICAL EVENING                            3
+ THE GIRAFFE RIDE                           4-5
+ A VERY HAPPY FAMILY                          6
+ A DUTIFUL PARENT                             7
+ A CASE OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY                  8-9
+ "THEY DIDN'T HAVE A PENNY"                  10
+ THE REFORMED LION                           11
+ QUITS                                       12
+ THE GENIAL GRIMALKIN                        13
+ EUCHRED!                                    14
+ THE BICYCLE RIDE                            15
+ STUDY OF HEDGEHOG STEALING APPLE            16
+ THE LION IN THE BARBER-SHOP                 17
+ THE BALD EAGLE AND THE BARBER               18
+ THE SPRING CURTAIN                       19-21
+ "'T IS A PERFECT PICNIC DAY!"               22
+ "A TAM O' SHANTER DOG"                      23
+ THE DONKEY AND HIS COMPANY               24-28
+ LATE!                                       29
+ PICTURES WITH A MORAL FOR BOYS AND DOGS  30-31
+ Y^E JOYFUL OWL                              32
+ A QUEER BARBER-SHOP                         33
+ THE CAT AND THE CREAM                       34
+ STORY OF THE CATNIP BALL                 35-36
+ THE PRICKLY PIG, THE PUG AND PARD           37
+ MATERNAL COUNSEL                            38
+ COASTING CATS                               39
+ THE ELEPHANT JUGGLER                        40
+ A SEA CHANGE                                41
+ A MEDICAL OPINION                           42
+ A NEEDLESS APPREHENSION                     43
+ THE CAT-O'-NINE-TAILS                       44
+ A HAPPY NEW YEAR                            45
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+A BOOK OF CHEERFUL CATS
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Some Fun with a Toy Spider.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    A little Girl asked some Kittens to tea
+    To meet some Dolls from France;
+    And the Mother came, too, to enjoy a view
+    And afterwards play for the dance.
+    But the Kittens were rude & grabbed their food
+    And treated the Dolls with jeers;
+    Which caused the Mother an aching heart
+    And seven or eight large tears.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+            Sing, sing! What shall we sing?
+    The cat's run away with the pudding-bag string.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    They were happy and did laugh
+    When their friend, the big Giraffe,
+    Tried his speed along the highway with the cars.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    But their joy was turned to grief
+    When their charger bit a leaf
+    That was growing in a region near the stars.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: STUPENDOUS AGGREGATION OF MIRACULOUS MARVELS]
+
+    THE
+    MUSICAL LAMB
+    ORPHEUS
+
+    JUMA
+    THE JUGGLER
+
+    LADY BLANCHE
+    THE COLOSSAL
+    FAT CAT
+
+    ONLY LIVING
+    FIVE EARED
+    LITERARY RABBIT
+
+
+
+
+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."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A CASE OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY]
+
+    Said a Cat to his sons, "I should deem
+    This blithe Picture-Book Boy carried cream."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    "Let us give him a scare,
+     So he'll leave it right there."
+
+     This will show the success of the scheme.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          THEY DIDN'T HAVE A PENNY,
+          AND COULDN'T BORROW ANY,
+    AND THEY OWED EXACTLY HALF A DIME FOR COAL;
+          SO THEY SAID, "WE'LL RUN AWAY,"--
+          WHEN A GOOSE CAME OUT TO SAY:
+    "YOU MUST PAY TWO CENTS APIECE ALL 'ROUND FOR TOLL!"
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    A Raging, Roaring Lion, of a Lamb-devouring kind,
+    Reformed and led a sweet, submissive life.
+    For with face all steeped in smiles
+    He propelled a Lamb for miles,
+    And he wed a woolly Spinster for a wife.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Quits.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Genial Grimalkin]
+
+    There was an old Cat named Macduff
+    Who could joke till you cried, "Hold, enough!"
+    His Wife and his Child so persistently smiled
+    That their cheeks got a permanent puff.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Euchred!]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+       "OH, dear Papa!" three children cried.
+         "You promised don't you know?
+     That next when you should take a ride
+          All three of us should go."
+    "I DID," that father said. "You know
+          I never speak at random.
+        So get your roller-skates. We'll go
+          Off in a tearing tandem!"
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Study of Hedgehog Stealing Apple.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    A Lion emerged from his lair
+    For a short summer cut to his hair.
+    But the Barber he wept;
+    While his customers slept
+    As they waited their turn in the chair.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    When the Barber at last shut his shop,
+    From the clouds a Bald Eagle did drop,
+    To purchase a lotion,
+    A brush, or some "notion"
+    To make the hair grow on his top.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Spring Curtain. A drama in five acts.
+
+1. Which?
+
+2. The Choice.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+3. The Rivals.
+
+4. "Ha, the Spring Curtain!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+5. Revenge.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    "'T is a perfect picnic day!" the little dog did say,
+     As he found his friends all ready for the train,
+    "Still, I thought 't would ease your mind
+     Not to leave this thing behind,--
+     For you know a bonnet suffers so from rain."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+        A Tam o' Shanter Dog
+        And a plaintive piping Frog,
+    With a Cat whose one extravagance was clothes,
+        Went to see a Bounding Bug
+        Dance a jig upon a rug,
+    While a Beetle balanced bottles on his nose.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Donkey and his Company.]
+
+A desultory Dog once met a discontented Donkey who could form no
+plans for his summer vacation. "Why not go with me to Bayreuth?"
+said the Dog. "We'll hear some music there, besides meeting all
+our friends." "Agreed," cried the Donkey; "'t is a happy thought."
+And they shook hands on it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On the way they met a fashionable Cat, and also a proud and
+sensitive young Fowl, who both declared they had long desired to
+go to Bayreuth. And so the four walked on in company.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+About noon the second day they suddenly stopped to listen, for
+they heard distant music. "That must be the ending of an overture,"
+said the Dog. "I should judge by the sound we were now about three
+miles from the Opera House."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Arriving at the Opera House, they found all the seats were sold,
+and that they could gain no admittance; and this so disappointed
+the sensitive Fowl that the others kindly assisted him to look in
+at an upper window.
+
+The music which poured from the building now so stirred them that
+they simultaneously burst into song.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+After the opera they all went to the Inn, where they had an excellent
+dinner, and then spent the evening in happy festivity.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Their musical sensibilities were now so quickened that they resolved
+to give a concert themselves, which was a great success and aroused
+immense enthusiasm.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Late!]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Pictures with a Moral for Boys and Dogs. I.]
+
+[Illustration: II.]
+
+[Illustration: III.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Y^e JOYFUL OWL.]
+
+     An Owl, with a Visage of Joy,
+     Once Chassed a Kate Greenaway Boy.
+    "'T will Break In my New Shoes,
+     And my Children Amuse;"--
+     And it Did:--but Alas! for y^e Boy.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A Queer Barber-Shop.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Scene I.]
+
+[Illustration: Scene II.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Story of the Catnip Ball. The Beginning.]
+
+[Illustration: The End.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    The Prickly Pig, the Pug and Pard
+    Try to surprise the Nubian Bard.
+    He only smiles, with gesture kind,--
+    Wild flights do not disturb his mind.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MATERNAL COUNSEL]
+
+    Said a Sheep to her child, "My dear Ruth,
+    Such precipitate haste is uncouth.
+    When you come down a stair
+    Use more caution and care,
+    And restrain this wild impulse of youth."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    O, coasting Cats! my nerves you thrill
+    As in your box you bounce and fly!
+    If Jack and Jill are down this hill,
+
+         I think you'll meet them presently.
+         And they may feel constrained to say
+         That yours is quite a sudden way.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    An Elephant sat on some kegs
+    And juggled glass bottles and eggs.
+    And he said. "I surmise
+    This occasions surprise,--
+    But, oh dear, how it tires one's legs!"
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A Sea Change]
+
+    They strolled at sunset down the beach and perched upon some piles,
+    And sang about the Summer Sea--which then was out for miles.
+    By eight o'clock the Summer Sea was flowing towards the shore,
+    And then, I think, they all got down and sang of it no more.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A Medical Opinion]
+
+    The Infant Camel felt depressed,--
+    A case of doleful dumps.
+    The Doctor said, "It seems to me
+    His back has got the mumps."
+
+    This diagnosis did divert
+    The Nurse, a Kangaroo,
+    And she did tell it to the Cat,
+    And he smiled somewhat, too.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A Needless Apprehension.]
+
+    A shipwrecked Spoonbill always has a shock
+    When he sees a Wigbird wading towards his rock.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    It makes a Cat-o'-Nine-Tails simply smile,
+    When a Peacock tries the Neighbors to beguile.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A HAPPY NEW YEAR!]
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other
+Animated Animals, by J. G. Francis
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30328 ***