Show I 1 I 1 PARADISE FOR CATS rny nil an t or t tt t r pt Is in no io I 1 ilan I 1 Caute 11 all i ali au ya v tho I 1 s 0 N I 1 ew w V 01 k art BIO not tho the whinton and rolando nui nials that sit and oralo ou on your fence lit in toun countries trica tho cut cat is all object of f consideration coil respect amounting in parts of at islam to 10 vener iliou for this worshipful regard fAril among the faithful tho the cat is in indebted to jul med a nice ping cat cai n loch had itself limit we hb coat ono day d ay iy cut that portion of the garment on chich the cats as reposing larom day to this thi aho mu ito millennia world has the I 1 ho cat with ven veneration cration tho the bergian particularly in me I 1 de deburen furen tull lit eu their treatment of UIL eat cat I 1 have seen cats lu in romin imater with on an exalted that would wourl have wade made tile the famous camou a KM officio cat spit alt with envy orso one dy day I 1 was ilia gut of all AH abin glnn hp be A of roots kovi 1 liegi city ny in clersia soon after roy my arrival the tb noon thle me aluis announced I 1 Bia sahib abo and aej followed fattened by 8 several 0 I 1 counsellors coun in long gon gowns no tend enoi r lyttia tur r baah also lio lie led the woy way into inlo tile tho diri dirilma lRa the dining choji u ai spread to la tho file center of tho floor the and tit ani v r 1 I associates seated scaled elves orlo J 1 fash ion on the floor I 1 I 1 tt os as pro tied with gitlia it lit alo ic stand table at ono ODO end ao aar incao ans loathing it n was merely au all ideal asiatic dihins room scene the part was miss yol yet to como come and como come jt it did I 1 cry promptly too loo it came la tho the shape of at AVO fl 0 o times limes ns an many finally cat asta as there were human guests la tho ilia room wore vare many open doors and iridious iriD win dous doiss os as la is usual lu in a persian house As wo filtered I 1 noticed that several of the alio famous long haired cats of MO country evoro oro hoto r ing expectantly at those these entrances already the number was iest to arrest my loloi wt nobody any particular nou sio of them however howo vor but mo me every moment another cat or two tire jumped airily upon ono one of tho the window fillol bill and viral ked right in lie in less time limo than llian it takes to ta toll it the number had bad to twenty or me more 11 and ll before boford wo we were half through cwg I 1 should think tho the number friia n anat at least doubled d tho the room outside tho the didio dicang rance was literally olivo with cats cata whenever n brought in a now new d dish ish or took any thing ou oy ho he was sms follo followed ned across tho the room his by a of cats that trotted lie in noiseless nameless confusion set not Nolan a meow jeow was heard however ter nor a sound during dunoff tho the meal time lime every cat heyel its tail aloft anti anil they passed UK the lease in silently moving about they ivero the iho most orderly and decorous lot of cats imag cable thoro was or no to overstep the bounds of proprieties they seemed to lo have acquired tho the stateliness and politeness ot of tho the people with whom thoy they W wro lessee association miss A g neither th tho holkum Holk lm nor tho the con counaH ors seemed r to regard this is as tiny iny thing unusual whenever ono of the iho C cats 3 colored to invade the iho edge of the dinner cloth lio ito would mould bo be gently almost apolo shoved boik tile tho cuts were fearless ind fo fa millir millar como porno of them stroked and littered against the diflora backs it was evident that never imon is I 1 v bat it was to a blow or a rudo rude rebuff nt at the hands bands of man mail after dinner the servitors pron removed tho the remnants tho the intruder ni prow prom evaded tho the apartments after tho the feed vaa tone removed and then gradually life dirt perilea periled ns is allent ly as they had bad collected tills lus was moro cats than I 1 had bad over ever ocea acen to of a cat show allow aning to linguistic shortcomings I 1 could never moke make ont ant whether they were all pensioners of I 1 be municipal lital koual or merest onto cats attracted to the official repent in this manner every day after ahn extraordinary introduction to tho the cats of persia the render reader would naturally expect to bear equally extraordinary lbino about their for sad to say bay tho the persian cat Is not always us circumspect to la his behavior its as he is u hen hovering around the outskirts ofa of a ims banqueting board nor kor does docs ho he alloys n nan all for ilia setting of the sun unto to tune I 1 one liioi him scuttle not Is than for its of hair is the persian let oil oa its lt native beasto calibrated among amon for its ito early matt cc concerts at au all hall hours rea of the day hen ibo elio felines of 0 other lands oro are indulging lu in dalco far silence and aad antin saying their vocal organs for the mystic stances of the night the cats of persia are ina tho walls and housetops hou clop uttering melodies that sound uco lake tho the v m of lost souls there is moro more genull so pathos in tho blab babl of 0 a persons persian thomas cat than there Is 1 in ft A luu lubons ons cull call to prayer tho unfortunate of the persian cat to carol in the daytime as v ell as lie in ilia night light is tho the causo cause of many little unpleasant leteran cotses no sea between tho the european colony irk in teheran and tho the natives fifty cat nal might warble on a persians root roof day and night and owing to their und under erthe the special protection of mohammed they never ba this of course a Ferou glai c cau not ti be expected to I 1 was in T teheran c a big v m bito cat took a fieney fancy to perch lum selfon on tho the wall olour of our konak kona kand and looking do don A 0 into in to tho the yard favor us I 1 mth lilt a musical mela zigo at any hour of the day or highl g I 1 lo in deference to the prejudices of our X us sulman neighbors wo content ad our dolres at first by shooing him away final ly however wo we concluded that his soul har bar rower refrain could no longere 0 endured it if mohammed or como come and fetch that cat we determined to send ito to mohammed it would never do to shoot sheet him openly however 0 a wo we took into our oar confidence OIL aa armenian servant event to choc master wo win learned the cat belonged Wl ongel an ali armenian bercant in persia would bell his bis master immortal acala for a keran and so when w offered the armenian two to latz produce abo cat in a bag the pe persistent scra nader was wai as gool good as doomed never more did that what whito warbler sit an and d look down into our nur konak and tantalize our two imported english bulldogs for hours together an avenging I 1 nemesis however was quickly upon us although tuo elio er was to mohammed n tit the greatest sc ac crocy a leve few doy days later tho the auest of the bulldogs went matt mad and 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