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thing, but for its attitude of humility and abasement. A distinguished American prelate has written some verses on his dog, in which

he assumes that, to the animal's eyes, he is as God,--a being whose word is law, and from whose sovereign hand flow all life's countless benefactions. Another complacent enthusiast describes _his_ dog as

sitting motionless in his presence, "at once tranquil and attentive, as a saint should be in the presence of God. He is happy with the happiness which we perhaps shall never know, since it springs

from the smile and the approval of a life incomparably higher than his own." Of course, if we are going to wallow in idolatry like

this, we do well to choose the dog, and not the cat, to play the worshipper's part. I am not without a suspicion that the dog is far from

feeling the rapture and the reverence which we so delightedly ascribe to him. What is there about any one of us to awaken such sentiments

in the breast of an intelligent animal? We have taught him our vices, and he fools us to the top of

our bent. The cat, however, is equally free from illusions and from

hypocrisy. If we aspire to a petty omnipotence, she, for one, will pay no homage at our shrine. Therefore has her latest

and greatest defamer, Maeterlinck, branded her as ungrateful and perfidious. The cat of "The Blue Bird" fawns and flatters, which is something no real cat was ever known

to do. When and where did M. Maeterlinck encounter an obsequious cat? That

the wise little beast should resent Tyltyl's intrusion into the ancient

realms of night, is conceivable, and that, unlike the dog, she should see nothing godlike in a masterful human boy, is hardly a matter for regret; but the most subtle of dramatists

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