Foreword / by Beryl Reid -- The cat's paradise / by Emile Zola -- Lillian / by Damon Runyon -- Saha / by Colette -- Childhood of Miss Churt / by F.R. Buckley -- The fat cat / by Q. Patrick -- The undoing of Morning Glory Adolphus / by N. Margaret Campbell -- How a cat played Robinson Crusoe / by Charles G.D. Roberts -- Ming's biggest prey / by Patricia Highsmith -- Mrs Bond's cats / by James Herriot -- Dick Baker's cat / by Mark Twain -- A cat affair / by Derek Tangye -- Kym / by Joyce Stranger -- A fine place for the cat / by Margaret Bonham -- The blue flag / by Kay Hill -- The story of Webster / by P.G. Wodehouse -- Trouble everywhere / by Doreen Tovey -- Heathcliff / by Lloyd Alexander -- The cat that walked by himself / by Rudyard Kipling -- A ship of solace / by Eleanor Mordaunt -- Particularly cats / by Doris Lessing -- The white and black dynasties / by Theophile Gautier -- Midshipman, the cat / by John Coleman Adams -- The best bed / by Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Acknowledgements.