TO
ANNE CHILD

LOKI.

PREFACE

A cat is of all animals the most difficult to know; it is so intimate,but so detached; so dependent on human beings for its comfort, soloftily indifferent to their wishes. It requires one who has livedwith cats and seen their idiosyncrasies, their whims and their strongindividuality, to write about them, and in the present author theyhave found a spokeswoman who knows them through and through. A senseof humour is necessary in dealing with the subject—and the humour isnot lacking. Loki is a real cat in more senses than one, and those whofollow his life story will find themselves better able to understandtheir own cats than they have ever been before.

THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS