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It is no longer the elderly lady who presides at the tea-kettle; the tabbies do not make or drink the teas; the younger pussies are the queens of four-o'clock tea. It is whispered that it is a convenient alias for flirtation, or something even sweeter that many engagements have been made at "four-o'clock teas." Certainly it is a very good opportunity for showing one's tea-cups.
As many hungry tabbies, sables, and tortoise-shells as can get out of doors, are trooping together with arched backs upon the pavement, following the little pony-cart, the cats' commissariat equipage, and each one, anxious for his daily allowance, contributing most musically his quota to the general concert.
"I have no objection to your selling them. You become them, and they become you; but I think school-houses will shine as brighter jewels in the better world." Here Flora came in with all her tribe; and when the welcomes were over, her first inquiries were for Madame and the Signor. "They are well," replied Mr. King, "and they seem to be as contented as tabbies on a Wilton rug.
And then, after that, she declared that nothing should induce her to undertake the kind of life that had been suggested by her aunt. "I quite agree with you there," said he; "quite. I hate tabbies as much as you do." They had now come to a little gate, of which John Ball kept a key, and which led into the grounds belonging to the Cedars.
She was, of course, glad to go, but Maxwell's speeches were to her the abstract things of life; the concrete things at this moment were the delicious dinner which was before her and the fact that in the barn, curled up in the hay, was a new family of kittens little tabbies like their adoring mother.
It must be brown, red, or yellow, with black spots. In the brown tabby the feet and pads are black; in the yellow and red, the feet and pads are pink. The spotted cat sometimes resembles a leopard, while the banded tabby resembles more the tiger. Some of the spotted tabbies are extremely handsome, and came originally from a cross between the ordinary cat and the wild cat.
He might shun the firesides of the old women whose tabbies were purring by their footstools, but these worthy dames do not make up the whole population. These two antipathies having been disposed of, a new suggestion was started, and was talked over with a curious sort of half belief, very much as ghost stories are told in a circle of moderately instructed and inquiring persons.
These Poles aren't like us tame tabbies, you know, and she's full of ginger, for all her sleepy ways. She's terribly high-born, you know, and can't bear anyone to look cross-eyed at her." "What did she do?" asked Patricia eagerly. "Slammed him good and hard," returned Griffin succinctly. "Told him he was fifteen different sorts of a lobster."
Every living cat in sight was soon in his game-bag. The members made no distinction between slender or consumptive cats, or pregnant tabbies. Every puss that came along was devoured with the same ravenous appetite.
The tom-cats of the neighbourhood had been requested to come and confess to him, invited to tell him their sins in embryo towards the tabbies who attracted their affections, and also the little pigs for whom fine lumps of tripe had been placed under the bed in order to prevent them becoming monks, of which they were very desirous, by disgusting them with the style of libera, which the monk would sing to them.
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