Word: catting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mike, Farewell! We all regret you, Although you would not let us pet you; Of cats, the wisest oldest best cat, This be your motto,-Requiescat...
Heartfelt, this elegy appeared last week from the pen of Assistant Keeper Hiley of the Department of Printed Books of the august British Museum. It was written in memory of ancient and honorable Cat Mike, whose small tombstone, near the Great Russell Street entrance to the Museum, bears this lapidary inscription: "He assisted in keeping the main gate of the British Museum from February 1909 to January...
...Cat Michael, the doyen of all Bloomsbury felines, was quite as proud and pompous as the gloomy edifice he guarded. Residents of Bloomsbury, whose suspicion of strangers is chronic and world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked...
...proudly marked "Nur für Herrschaften"-"For Gentry Only!" It is always understood, and generally written in the lease, that no messengers, delivery boys, or servants may ride in the lift except when the servant is accompanied by the employer or the employer's dog, cat, etc. That has been the rule, but last week a new day broke for flat-footed menials...
...letter received yesterday by Captain M. J. Brennan, of the police force, the Commission asked him to kidnap the "half starved cats who perch on the back-yard fences" and disturb the sleep of many a Harvard man. The Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad...