Chapter I: Front Matter
TOOTSY WOOTSY WERNER (four months old),
In whose honor this book is published.]
“See, Tootsy Wootsy be’s m’ tat.”]
Werner’s
Readings and Recitations
No. 35
Cats and Kittens
NEW YORK
EDGAR S. WERNER & COMPANY
Copyright, 1906, by Edgar S. Werner
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Audacious Kitten.—Oliver Herford 184
Bad Peter, Bad Joe 119
Baron Grimalkin’s Death (Parody on Greene’s “Baron’s Last
Banquet”).—Will M. Carlton 126
Boy Blue and His Gun.—Nellie M. Garabraut 209
Boys’ Compositions on Cats 215
Cat and Fox (Fable) 137
Cat and Mouse 157
Cat and Painter.—Eleanor H. Porter 188
Cat and Tiger (Fable) 43
Cat Came Fiddling 42
Cat Convention.—Edna A. Foster 155
Cat Law-Suit 168
Cat-Life.—Lucy Larcom 185
Cat of Hindustan 228
Cat That Came to School (Action Poem) 32
Cat-egorical Courtship 115
Catching the Cat.—Margaret Vandegrift 254
Catkin 65
Cats (Parody on Southey’s “Cataract of Lodore”) 66
Cats.—Eve Lawless 34
Cats and Dogs.—Jerome K. Jerome 46
Cats’ and Kittens’ Opening Address 12
Cat’s Birthday Celebration.—Mrs. Gertrude Manly Jones 27
Cats’ Duet 146
Cats, Essay or Address on.—Stanley Schell 224
Cat’s Meat Man; or, Cupboard Love 267
Cats’ Merry, Merry Meeting (Action Song).—Stanley Schell 153
Cats Recognized by Cat Clubs of To-day 243
Cats’ Tea Party (Action Poem) 26
Cats’ Thanksgiving Day 38
Composite Cat.—Maria J. Hammond 241
Daisy’s Thanksgiving 212
Dame Trot and Her Cat 77
De Black Cat Crossed His Luck.—J.D. Corrothers 124
Dead Canary.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 230
Dead Kitten.—Sydney Dayre 199
Decoration of Honor.—L.E. Street 36
Dick Whittington (Song with Tableaux) 49
Dickens and His Kitten 195
Differences between Cat and Dog.—Elizabeth I. Cassin 24
Ding Dong Bell (Words only) 227
Ding Dong Bell (Song—Illustrated) 39
Dirty Kitty Cat.—Stanley Schell 194
Dishonest Cat.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 133
Doctor Tom Mew 98
Dog and Cat 218
Dogs and Cats.—Alexander Dumas 94
Down to St. Ives 207
Duel.—Eugene Field 143
Elder Johnson’s Lecture on Cats 69
Emblematic Signification of Cat 145
Every Mother’s Love the Best 150
False Kindness 79
Family Cat 97
Feline Fate.—Anna Robeson Brown 129
Five Kitty Cats 103
Girl, Cat and Custard 183
Good-for-nothing Cat 57
Gray’s Elegy on Horace Walpole’s Cat 232
Had to Eat It 219
Happy Family (Music) 165
Hodge, the Cat.—Susan Coolidge 117
Homeless Kitten (Music).—Jane Campbell 135
Homeliest Cat at the Show.—Rosalie M. Jones 20
How Pussy and Mousie Kept House.—A.C. Kish 68
How Pussy Bathes 187
How to Feed and Care for Cats.—Stanley Schell 240
In Liquor 260
In the Hay-Loft.—Helen Thayer Hutcheson 144
Intelligent Cat.—Grace Bacon Holway 35
Jet and Snowflake (Dialogue) 270
Jim Wolfe and the Cats.—Mark Twain 244
Just Plain Cat.—Jennie Pendleton Ewing 92
Kathie’s Story 100
Kind Boy.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 120
Kitten and the Falling Leaves (Action Poem).—William Wordsworth 122
Kitten and the Mouse 67
Kitten of the Regiment.—James Buckram 246
Kitten that Never Grew Old 178
Kittens’ Blind-Man’s Buff (Illustrated) 90
Kittens’ Dancing-Lesson.—Stanley Schell 179
Kittens’ Fright (Action Poem) 113
Kittens’ Promenade 74
Kitten’s View of Life.—Thomas Westwood 159
Kitty 242
Kitty at School.—Kate Ulmer 208
Kittycat and the Milkman 202
Kitty’s Lesson.—C. Grace Jerolamen 220
Lament of a Forsaken Cat.—Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell 41
Land on Your Feet.—Sam Walter Foss 158
Language of Cats 186
Lincoln’s Motherless Kittens.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 196
Little Cat Made Fur Fly 264
Little Kittens 71
Little Kitty (Action Poem) 128
Little Pussy.—Taylor 121
Little Turncoats.—Georgia A. Peck 205
Lost Kitty 28
Lost Mittens (Illustrated) 201
Matthew Arnold’s Cat, Atossa 182
Matilda Martha May.—Fannie Rogers White 106
Me an’ Bab.—Joy Vetrepont 151
Me an’ Methuselar.—Harriet Ford 161
Mirror Cat.—Oliver Herford 30
Mischievous Cat.—Mrs. E.T. Corbett 206
Miss Edith’s Modest Request.—Bret Harte 138
Miss Kitty Manx to Sir Thomas Angora.—Mary S. Boyd 140
Miss Tabbycat’s Reception.—Elizabeth L. Gould 102
Mistress Kitty 96
Model Cat.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 271
Modest Cat’s Soliloquy 29
Mother Gray and Her Children (Music) 172
Mother Tabbyskins 82
My Cat.—Charles Baudelaire 115
My Cat and Dog.—Marori 200
My Kittens.—Olive Stevens Brown 104
My Little Gray Kitty and I 86
My Ol’ Black Cat.—Flavia Rosser 198
My Old Gray Cat and I.—Joe Lincoln 136
My Pet Cat 253
My Pussy (Music—Illustrated) 214
Naughty Pussy 233
Newsboy’s Cat; or, the Fam’ly Man.—Mrs. E.T. Corbett 213
Nobody Did It 88
Nocturnal Shot 81
Object of Love.—Mary E. Wilkins 107
Old Nursery Rhyme 78
Out for a High Time.—E. Louise Liddell 59
Outing.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 176
Pace That Kills 75
Partnership.—Margaret Vandegrift 75
Pet and Her Cat 174
Pins in Pussy’s Toes.—Harriet Beecher Stowe 40
Poet’s Lamentation for Loss of His Cat.—Joseph Green 261
Polly Pry’s Kitten (Action Poem) 55
Prince of Newfoundland; or, Only a Dog and a Kitten.—Celia Thaxter 141
Puss and Her Three Kittens.—Tom Hood 87
Puss in Mischief (Action Poem) 76
Pussy and the Mice 118
Pussy at School.—Louis B. Tisdale 171
Pussy-Cat 164
Pussy-Cat and Mouse on Thanksgiving 269
Pussy Gray’s Dinner 160
Pussy Willows 219
Pussy’s Dream 93
Pussy’s Vocal Lesson 169
Quousque Tandem, O Catiline?—A.L. Frisbie 257
Rash Young Mouse (Action Poem) 56
Ready for Breakfast (Illustrated) 101
Retired Cat.—William Cowper 236
Revenge for Poisoning a Cat 234
Robin Redbreast and Pussy-Cat 74
Sad Case.—Clara D. Bates 45
Sandy Jenkins’s Remarks on the Black Cat.—J.D. Corrothers 72
Scarum Cat.—Mary Elizabeth Stone 221
Sea-Puss.—Kate Upson Clark 170
Secret Told Pussie 80
Social Tea.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 180
Some Cat Traits 156
Southey’s Cats Write Their Master.—Robert Southey 263
Strange Mouse 239
Sunday Episode (Illustrated).—Herbert Randall 70
Tatters, the Cat.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 91
That Cat.—Ben King 78
Three Maidens Fair.—Stanley Schell 89
Three Naughty Kittens.—Isabel Frances Bellows 166
Timid Kitten.—Carolyn Wells 58
Tom.—M.T. Hart 252
Tommie 116
Toodlekins and Flip 265
Tootsy Wootsy.—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 13
Topsy 85
Troll Cat 222
Turn About 79
Two Gray Kits and the Gray Kits’ Mother 71
Two Hearts and a Kitten.—Mabel Preece 203
Two Pussy-Cats.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox 105
“Two’s Company, Three’s None.”—Mrs. Frederick W. Pender 52
Ungrateful Cat 259
Walter Savage Landor’s Favorite Cat, Chinchinillo 134
Warning (Music) 114
Watch-Cat.—Elliot Walker 248
Way You Look at It 173
We Cats (Action Song) 60
We’ve Lost Our Job.—Stanley Schell 262
What Became of the Kitten? 175
What I Want.—David L. Proudfit 258
What Puss Thinks 33
“When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play”
(Tableau).—Mrs. Mary L. Gaddess 167
Where Are Those Sleepy Kittens? (Action Poem) 44
Where Have You Been? 73
Where Is My Kitty? (Action Poem) 99
Why Cats Wash After Eating.—Eva J. Beede 25
Why the Cat Always Falls upon Her Feet.—Louise Jamison 211
Wisdom 233
Wise Mouse.—Mary Raymond Garretson 31
* * * * *
Conundrums—25, 119, 123, 125, 142, 156, 157, 177, 179, 183, 193, 197, 198, 207, 210, 220, 227, 235, 251.
AUTHORS.
PAGE
Bates, Clara Doty 45
Baudelaire, Charles 115
Beede, Eva J. 25
Bellows, Isabel Frances 166
Boyd, Mary S. 140
Brown, Anna Robeson 129
Brown, Olive Stevens 104
Buckram, James 246
Campbell, Jane 135
Carlton, Will M. 126
Cassin, Elizabeth I. 24
Clark, Kate Upson 170
Coolidge, Susan 117
Corbett, Mrs. E.T. 206, 213
Corrothers, J.D. 72, 124
Cowper, William 236
Dayre, Sydney 199
Dumas, Alexander 94
Ewing, Jennie Pendleton 92
Field, Eugene 143
Ford, Harriet 161
Foss, Sam Walter 158
Foster, Edna A. 155
Frisbie, A.L. 257
Gaddess, Mrs. Mary L. 167
Garabraut, Nellie M. 209
Garretson, Mary Raymond 31
Gould, Elizabeth L. 102
Green, Joseph 261
Hammond, Maria J. 241
Hart, M.T. 252
Harte, Bret 138
Herford, Oliver 30, 184
Holway, Grace Bacon 35
Hood, Tom 87
Hutcheson, Helen Thayer 144
Jamison, Louise 211
Jerolamen, C. Grace 220
Jerome, Jerome K. 46
Jones, Mrs. Gertrude M. 27
Jones, Rosalie M. 20
King, Ben 78
Kish, A.C. 68
Larcom, Lucy 185
Lawless, Eve 34
Liddell, E. Louise 59
Lincoln, Joe 136
Marori 200
Mitchell, Elizabeth H. 41
Peck, Georgia A. 205
Pender, Mrs. Frederick W. 13, 52, 91, 120, 133, 176, 180, 196,
230, 271
Porter, Eleanor H. 188
Preece, Mabel 203
Proudfit, David L. 258
Randall, Herbert 70
Rosser, Flavia 198
Schell, Stanley 89, 153, 179, 194, 224, 240, 262
Southey, Robert 263
Stone, Mary Elizabeth 221
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 40
Street, L.E. 36
Taylor 121
Thaxter, Celia 141
Tisdale, Louis B. 171
Twain, Mark 244
Ulmer, Kate 208
Vandegrift, Margaret 75, 254
Vetrepont, Joy 151
Walker, Elliot 248
Wells, Carolyn 58
Westwood, Thomas 159
White, Fannie Rogers 106
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 105
Wilkins, Mary E. 107
Wordsworth, William 122
CATS’ AND KITTENS’ OPENING ADDRESS.
Kind audience, we wish to say right here,
We’re only play cats and kittens dear.
(’Twould be absurd for cats to play
This entertainment, their parts they could not say),
For cats, you know, can only “me-you,”
And that we know is Greek to you.
Then, if a rat should chance to drop
Upon us, why, off we’d pop!
All this I tell you for your sake,
For fear you’d make a grave mistake,
And think that we real catties were.
I therefore ask you to suppose
That we are dressed up in cats’ clothes.
[_All bow, then all together give the following calls as they back to stage back and exit._]
[Music]
WERNER’S
READINGS AND RECITATIONS
No. 35.
Copyright, 1906, by Edgar S. Werner.
TOOTSY WOOTSY.
POEM, LESSON-TALK AND PANTOMIME, BY MRS. FREDERICK W. PENDER.
POSES BY BABY ELOCUTIONIST VIRGINIA BELL (2 YEARS OLD) AND KITTEN TOOTSY WOOTSY (4 MONTHS OLD).
Photographs by Jacques Joel, New York.
Copyright, 1906, by Edgar S. Werner.
_Written expressly for this book._
See, Tootsy Wootsy be’s m’ tat,
An’ her as tunnin’ as tan be;
She am ner bigger den m’ han’,
An’s dot der bites’ eyes oo’ see.
All fluffy wuffy be’s her toat,
An’ say, her face, it’s orsel wise;
I spec’s some day ’at she’ll dit
Der firstes’, bestes’ tind oo’ prize.
She puts her ’ittle velvet paws
Wite up ter me ser dem I’ll shake;
An’ ef she be’s des fas’ ersleep,
I nezzer ties fer her ter wake.
I ’dopt her fer m’ owners’ tat,
An’ dot fer her der nices’ house,
W’ere she do stay w’en nite am tum
Ser still an’ twiet as er mouse.
She ain’t ner tommon tind o’ tat,
She am Andora, yes, she be;
An’ w’en I smooth her back an’ tail,
Her winks, an’ purrs, an’ p’ays wiv me.
An’ nen I buy (now doan yo’ laff),
Er sing ner uzzer titten’s dot,
Er nussin’ bottle, wiv er mouf
F’um w’ich she dinks her milk w’en hot.
Oh! she do be ser very nice,
I hopes she nezzer wuns erway;
Fer ef she do, I tannot tell
W’at I ’oud do, or sink, or say.
Maybe, I mite dess tazy dit,
Ef f’um m’ titten I did part;
So, Tootsy, darlin’! oo’ stay here,
Fer ef yer don’ yo’ bwake m’ heart.
[Some people do not care to teach children dialect, so we print the poem “Tootsy Wootsy” in ordinary English. The same lesson-talk applies to both forms of the poem.]
TOOTSY WOOTSY.
See, Tootsy Wootsy is my cat,
And she’s as cunning as can be;
She is no bigger than my hand,
And has the brightest eyes you see.
All fluffy wuffy is her coat,
And see, her face, it’s very wise;
I expect some day that she’ll get
The first and only kind of prize.
She puts her little velvet paws
Right up to me so them I’ll shake;
And if she is just fast asleep,
I never cry for her to wake.
I take her for my very own
And have for her the nicest house,
Where she can stay when night is come
As still and quiet as a mouse.
She’s not a common kind of cat,
She is Angora, yes, she is;
And when I smooth her back and tail,
She winks, and purrs, and plays with me.
And then I buy (now don’t you laugh)
A thing no other kitten’s got,
A nursing-bottle, with a mouth
From which she drinks her milk when hot.
Oh! she is really very nice,
I hope she’ll never run away;
For if she does, I cannot tell
What I would do, or think, or say.
Maybe, I might just crazy get,
If from my kitten I did part;
So, Tootsy, darling! you stay here,
For if you don’t, you’ll break my heart.
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