EBOOK BARKS AND PURRS ***
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BARKS AND PURRS
BY
COLETTE WILLY
TRANSLATED BY
MAIRE KELLY
CONTENTS
PREFACE
SENTIMENTALITIES
ON THE TRAIN
DINNER IS LATE
SHE IS ILL
THE FIRST FIRE
THE STORM
A CALLER
PREFACE
_Madame_:
_There are moments when one seems to come to life. One looks about and
distinguishes a creature whose foot-print closely resembles the ace of
spades. The thing says: bow-wow. It is a dog. One looks again. The ace
of spades is now an ace of clubs. The thing says: pffffffff--and it is a
cat._
_This is the history of the visible world and in particular, that of my
god-children, Toby-Dog and Kiki-the-Demure. They are so natural--I use
the word in the sense in which it is applicable to the savages of
Oceania--that all their acts conspire to make of life, a very simple
proposition. These are animals in the fullest sense of the
word--animos--if I may employ the original orthography, capable of
exclaiming with those of Faust_: "The fool knows it not! He knows not
the pot, He knows not the kettle.
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