Autumn: The garden of stubborn cats / Italo Calvino. Cat by the fire / Leigh Hunt -- White cat / W.W. Jacobs -- Black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Cats / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- Cat / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Calvin, the cat / Charles Dudley Warner -- Ye marvelous legend of Tom Connor's cat / Samuel Lover -- Dick Baker's cat / Mark Twain -- Conscientious cat / Agnes A. Sandham -- He wrote to the rats / Julian Ralph -- Philanthropist and the happy cat / Saki -- Tobermory / Saki -- Midshipman, the cat / John Coleman Adams -- Black affair / W.W. Jacobs -- "When in doubt - Wash!" / Paul Gallico -- Jennie's lessons to Peter on how to behave like a cat / Paul Gallico -- Witch's cat / Manly Wade Wellman -- Feline felony / Lael J. Littke -- Cyprian cat / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Novice / James H. Schmitz -- Fat cat / Q. Patrick -- My father, the cat / Henry Slesar -- Sin of Madame Phloi / Lilian Jackson Braun -- King of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Game of rat and dragon / Cordwiner Smith -- Podolo / L.P. Hartley -- Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber -- Spooner / Eleanor Farjeon -- Story of Webster / P.G. Wodehouse -- Out of place / Pamela Sargent -- Cat nipped / Jack Schaefer -- Cat who lived in a drainpipe / Joan Aiken -- Some are born cats / Terry and Carol Carr -- Autumn: The garden of stubborn cats / Italo Calvino.