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- Originally collected in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories in 1902, The Cat that Walked by Himself is one of the best-loved cat tales ever written. It is a story of the beginning of domesticated life: Man meets Woman and they move into a cave and set up the first household.
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The Cat counted the five things (and they looked very knobby) and he said, ‘I will catch mice when I am in the Cave for always and always and always; but still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.’
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First published in the Ladies’ Home Journal, July 1902. Collected in Just So Stories (1902), illustrated by the author and followed by the poem “Pussy can sit by the fire and sing” (“The First Friend” in the Just So Songbook, 1911). The upper part of the illustration on p. 185 was reproduced on the dust jacket. There are numerous paperback editions...
Originally all the tame animals were wild, but especially the Cat: he walked by himself and all places were alike to him. The Man was wild too until he met the Woman, who chose a Cave for them to live in, lit a fire in it and hung a horsehide over the opening. She cooked a meal of wild ingredients. Then, while the Man slept, she took the bladebone ...
The manuscript of the story and the verse are in the volume “Just So Stories” at the British Library, preceded by a list of words to be given capital letters – Cat, Man, etc. Carrington’s notes from Mrs Kipling’s diaries give the date of writing as 23rd January 1902, but in a letter quoted in ORG(pp. 1689-90), Carrington said: Carrington also calle...
In the letter quoted above, Carrington wrote: ‘I sometimes think ‘The Cat that Walked’ is RK’s masterpiece, the best story he ever wrote of any kind.’ J M S Tompkins[pp. 55-6] remembered that: To Rosemary Sutcliffe: But to Angus Wilson the story was ‘too marred by humans, cosy …[p. 229]. For Rosalind Meyer: She further wrote In a letter to the Kipl...
"The Cat That Walked by Himself" is the story of a character who wants to be seen as independent but who actually values company. The story is set in a time when the tame animals of the world were wild.
Cat went far and far away and hid himself in the Wet Wild Woods by his wild lone for a long time till the Woman forgot all about him. Only the Bat—the little upside-down Bat—that hung inside the Cave, knew where Cat hid; and every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news of what was happening.
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Oct 1, 2007 · Originally collected in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories in 1902, The Cat that Walked by Himself is one of the best-loved cat tales ever written. It is a story of the beginning of...
The Cat that Walked by Himself – explains how man domesticated all the wild animals, even the cat, which insisted on greater independence. The Butterfly that Stamped – how Solomon saved the pride of a butterfly , and the Queen of Sheba used this to prevent his wives scolding him.
