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Show Gautier and His Cats. One of Gautler's peculiarities wa love for cats. As soon as he ccraH conveniently do so he afforded himself him-self the luxury of twelve of the handsomest hand-somest felines that money could pur- chase. It was an interesting sight t" j behold this Hercules In his writlnf . room playing with his regiment ol j cats, whom he had taught to love one j another as they did himself. Wttfi some of them broke a valuable object of art his study, by the way, was i i . curiosity shop he seriously deliberat- j ed upon getting rid of them; but when the man -he had engaged came to re-move re-move the obnoxious pets, he relentec! and sent him away. He named eaetj one of them after some well-know -person to whom he fancied It bore re semblance, physical or otherwise. He seldom wrote anything without a est or two in his lap. Maurice Mauris. |