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SOME CATS OF FRANCE

N the year 1865 juge de paix of Fontainebleau, from whom several householders had demanded legal protection for their cats, pronounced this admirable judgment.

"That the domestic cat is not a thing of naught, but the property of its master, and, as such, entitled to the shelter of the law;

"That the utility of the cat as a destroyer of mischievous rodents being indisputable, equity demands the extension of indulgence to an animal which the law tolerates and protects;