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    The Nomad of the Nine Lives
    The Nomad of the Nine Lives
    The Nomad of the Nine Lives
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    The Nomad of the Nine Lives

    By A. Frances (Abby Frances) Friebe

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Nomad of the Nine Lives - A. Frances (Abby Frances) Friebe

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      Title: The Nomad of the Nine Lives

      Author: A. Frances Friebe

      Release Date: February, 2005  [EBook #7519]

      This file was first posted on May 13, 2003

      Last Updated: May 16, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NOMAD OF THE NINE LIVES ***

      Produced by Charles Franks, Juliet Sutherland, Clare Elliott, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team; the HTML file provided by David

      Widger.

      THE NOMAD OF THE NINE LIVES

      By A. Frances Friebe

      Illustrated by Clara R. Atwood

      (No illustrations in this edition)

      To

      Rev. Francis H. Howley

      President S.P.C.A

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      CHAPTER I

      CHAPTER II

      CHAPTER III

      CHAPTER IV

      CHAPTER V

      CHAPTER VI

      CHAPTER VII

      Preface

      Uncle, why don't you write the story of your life? So says my nephew Tom to me when he comes in and finds me sitting in a brown study before a comfortable fire. I have finally granted his request, for I have spent many an hour in relating my thrilling adventures to him and am sure that he has enjoyed them and even profited by them. Thus have I been persuaded to write this little book in the hope that it will be interesting to people as well as to cats.

      Of course I am only a cat, but I have tried to be a good one, and I think that a good cat is of more use in the world than a bad human being. There is no doubt but that cats are important members of almost every household. What is home without a cat? Great is the comfort and companionship that have been brought by them into the lives of solitary spinsters; earnestly and faithfully have they slaved to free homes of destructive rats and mice, and have also protected the corn in the farmers' barns. When one reads of the terrible loss caused by these rodents, it is astonishing to think that their destroyers could ever be ill-used or abandoned. I shall quote as nearly as possible from a newspaper which I once heard my master reading, so you can see how a good many faithful cats are treated:

          "There are probably few people in the city of Boston

          who realize that over 25,000 abandoned cats and 3,000

          dogs are electrocuted each year by the Animal Rescue

          League, by means of a cage which is charged with a

          strong current of electricity. After entering and the

          door is closed, they die without pain or struggle. June

          is the time of year that people abandon dogs, cats and

          other pets, for at this time they move to the seashore

          and disregard their four-footed friends, leaving them

          to wander in the streets. It is the aim of the Animal

          Rescue League to procure and dispose of all animals

          thus abandoned and, whenever possible, they are provided

          with good homes. There were 27,607 cats rescued

          by the League in 1912

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