Show gautier and his cats one of gautiere gautiers Gaut Gau lers tiers peculiarities was love for cats As soon as he be could colv do so he afforded himself elf ilie luxury of twelve of the hand felines that money could pur chaa it was an interesting sight to beh behnert ild this hercules in his writing room playing with his regiment of cats whom lie had bad taught to love one another as they did himself when some borne of them broke a valuable object of art his ahls study by the way was a curiosity shop he seriously deliberated upon getting rid of them but when the arn he had engaged came to remove i the lie obnoxious pets he relented and fait i him away he named each one a ail them after some well known knowd person to whom he be fancied it bore re semblance physical or otherwise he ha seldom wrote anything without a cat or two tu to in his lap maurice mauris |