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100 1 _aSmyth, E.
245 1 4 _aThe history of Tabby, a favourite cat
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-04
508 _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))
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Didier and Tebbett, 1809
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aAnimal welfare -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCats -- Juvenile fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76440
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