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CRITICISM.
A small crowd gathered before a window, recently,
to admire the figure of a cat which was there as if for
public inspection. Nearly every one was delighted with
its likeness to life.
“But still,” said Augustus, “there are faults in it;
it is far from perfect; observe the defect in the foreshortening
of that paw, now; and the expression of the
eye, too, is bad; besides, the mouth is too far down
under the chin, while the whiskers look as if they were
coming out of her ears. It is too short, too” — but, as
if to obviate this defect, the figure stretched itself, and
rolled over in the sun.
“It is a cat, I vow!” said a bystander.
“It is alive!” shouted Ike, delightedly clapping his
hands.
“Why, it 's only a cat, arter all,” said Mrs. Partington,
as she surveyed it through her specs; but Augustus
moved on, disappointed that nature had fallen so
far short of his ideas of perfection in the manufacture of
cats.
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