Show batler and his cats I 1 one of gautiere gautiers Gaut Gau lera tiers peculiarities was waa love for cots cat I 1 s As soon as he could conveniently do so he afforded III aln PI self the luxury of twelve of the handsomest z felines that money could purchase it wa was a an interesting sight to behold this hercules in his writing room playing with his regiment of cats whom he had bad taught to love one another as they did himself when some of th them em broke a valuable object of art lils his study by the way was a curiosity shop he seriously I 1 deliberated upon getting rudof them but when the man he be had engaged came to remove the obnoxious pets he relented and sent him away he named each one of them after some joine well known whom hi he fancied it bore resemblance physical or otherwise he ha seldom wrote anything without a cat or two in his lap maurice laoris maoris |