THIS is a true story, but you needn’t believe it unless you like. It happened to a cat I know, who has never said anything untrue in her life. One day when this cat had gone down to the sea to bathe, she was
on the steps of her bathing-machine looking at the sea and wondering whether it would be cold—as I daresay you have often done—when she saw something golden and
in the water. She thought it was a fish, and dived into the water at once. But it was no fish; it was a yellow sea-cat, with
and a fish’s tail—a sort of cat-mermaid.
The cat who told me the story said that the sea-cat took her by the
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