Put those claws away!

[HerenIstarion]

little Ronald was tormenting a cat

I don't believe he was ever

319 From a letter to Roger Lancelyn Green

I used (before 1900) to be read to from an 'old collection' — tattered and without cover or title-page – of which all I can now remember was that (I think) it was by Bulwer Lytton, and contained one story I was then very fond of called 'Puss Cat Mew'.