02282cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000140011324500420012726400510016930000470022033600260026733700260029333800360031950000310035550801800038652011910056653400600175765300400181765300390185765300290189685600430192576440UtSlPG20260610134753.0mcr n260607r20251809utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPZ1 aSmyth, E.14aThe history of Tabby, a favourite cat 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-07-04  aCarla Foust and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net ((This file was produced from images generously made available by the Toronto Public Library))  a"The history of Tabby, a favourite cat :  As related by herself to her kitten" by E. Smyth is a children’s moral tale written in the early 19th century. The book follows a mother cat narrating her life to teach virtues such as humility, gratitude, self-control, and kindness toward animals.  Tabby recounts her youth in a cottage, her pride and disobedience, and a perilous attempt to reach the big house that ends with a fall into a cellar and a painful rescue by kind children, especially Henry and Phœbe. Settled with the Meade family, she sketches their characters—Eliza’s conceit, Henry’s compassion, Clara’s delicacy, Augustus’s rashness, and Phœbe’s tenderness—then confesses her worst lapse: killing Henry’s pet dormice. Shamed by his fairness, she reforms and later proves her virtue by resisting the pigeons while locked overnight in their loft, earning praise. She also endures cruelty from visiting boys who maim her, but Henry protects her thereafter. The tale closes with her affectionate counsel to her kitten and a quiet return indoors, underscoring repentance, gentleness, and just treatment of animals. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Didier and Tebbett, 1809  aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction  aAnimal welfare -- Juvenile fiction  aCats -- Juvenile fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76440