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Show Gautier and His Cats. One of Gautier's peculiarities was love for cats. As soon as he could conveniently do so he afforded himself him-self the luxury of twelve of the handsomest hand-somest felines that money could purchase. pur-chase. It was an interesting sight to behold this Hercules in his writing room playing with his regiment of cats, whom he had taught to love one another as they did himself. When some of them broke a valuable object of art his study, by the way. was a curiosity shop he seriously deliberated deliberat-ed upon getting rid of them; but when the man he had engaged cams to remove re-move the obnoxious pets, he relented and sent him away. He named each one of them atter some wen-Know u person to whom he fancied it bore resemblance, re-semblance, physical or otherwise. He seldom wrote anything without a cat or two in his lap Maurice Mauris. |