原版英文小说The Adventures of a Cat
In selecting the biography of another animal from the Archives ofCaneville, for the entertainment of a very different race, I thought Icould not do better than fix upon "The Cat;" and as the celebrated MissMinette Gattina, the historian of poor Job, had bequeathed some of herown memoirs to her native City, furnished, too, with an Introduction byherself, I at once seized upon the materials thus afforded me, andconverted them into their present form.
In selecting the biography of another animal from the Archives ofCaneville, for the entertainment of a very different race, I thought Icould not do better than fix upon "The Cat;" and as the celebrated MissMinette Gattina, the historian of poor Job, had bequeathed some of herown memoirs to her native City, furnished, too, with an Introduction byherself, I at once seized upon the materials thus afforded me, andconverted them into their present form.