. The pet book. Pets. THE CAT. NLY the sttident of history can fully appreciate the im- portance of cats. If we coiild know really the history of the civ- ilizations of the world, we shotild undoubtedly find that cats have played an important part in it. Wherever pioneers have planted their crops, there have followed rats and mice in plenty to reap their harvest; there- fore, no part of their household belongings was prized more by our forefathers than the domestic cat. Indeed, the cat is still a great factor in keeping in check rats and mice. Our government appropriates money every year to su
. The pet book. Pets. THE CAT. NLY the sttident of history can fully appreciate the im- portance of cats. If we coiild know really the history of the civ- ilizations of the world, we shotild undoubtedly find that cats have played an important part in it. Wherever pioneers have planted their crops, there have followed rats and mice in plenty to reap their harvest; there- fore, no part of their household belongings was prized more by our forefathers than the domestic cat. Indeed, the cat is still a great factor in keeping in check rats and mice. Our government appropriates money every year to support cats in the postoffices and other public buildings; and now in Pittsburg our national government is attempting to develop a strain of cats that can endure life in cold storage ware- houses. Thus we can see that the story of Dick Whittington reveals to us, better than most written histories, the value erf a cat in a country overrun with vermin. In Dick Whittington's time a cat was indeed worth its weight in gold. There are in general, two kinds of cats,—^the long- haired or Persians and the short-haired which includes our common household puss. Formerly the Angoras were supposed to be distinct from the Persians, but now they are regarded as indistinguishable. The Persian varieties are deter- mined by color. They are the Blacks, the Blues, 21. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930; Lord, Henry B. ins; Wright, Albert Hazen, 1879-1970 ins; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. ins. Ithaca, N. Y. : Comstock
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