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He is quiet and small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the tiniest crack He can walk on the narrowest rail. He can pick any card from a pack, He is equally cunning with dice; He is always deceiving you into believing That he's only hunting for mice. He can play any trick with a cork Or a spoon and a bit of fish-paste; If you look for a knife or a fork And you think it is merely misplaced— You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn! But you'll find it next week lying out on the lawn.

I have sat by the bedside of poor Little Nell; When the Curfew was rung, then I swung on the bell. In the Pantomime season I never fell flat And I once understudied Dick Whittington's Cat. ' Then, if someone will give him a toothful of gin, He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne. At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat, When some actor suggested the need for a cat. He once played a Tiger—could do it again— Which an Indian Colonel pursued down a drain. And he thinks that he still can, much better than most, Produce blood-curdling noises to bring on the Ghost.

Eliot Table of Contents Title Page Table of Contents ... ... Copyright Preface Contents ... THE NAMING OF CATS THE OLD GUMBIE CAT GROWLTIGER'S LAST STAND THE RUM TUM TUGGER THE SONG OF THE JELLICLES MUNGOJERRIE AND RUMPELTEAZER OLD DEUTERONOMY OF THE PEKES AND THE POLLICLES MR. MISTOFFELEES MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT GUS: THE THEATRE CAT BUSTOPHER JONES: THE CAT ABOUT TOWN SKIMBLESHANKS: THE RAILWAY CAT THE AD-DRESSING OF CATS CAT MORGAN INTRODUCES HIMSELF Drawings by EDWARD GOREY Harcourt Brace & Company New York San Diego London Copyright 1939 by T.