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My Sister And My Brother, Of Whom I Have Not Spoken Before, Were Considerably Older Than I; It Seemed Almost As If We Belonged To Different Generations.

I Do Not Exactly Remember At What Period I Started My Museum Which Absorbed So Much Of My Time.

Cats Are Possessed Of A Shy, Retiring Nature, Cajoling, Haughty, And Capricious, Difficult To Fathom. They Reveal Themselves Only To Certain Favored Individuals, And Are Repelled By The Faintest Suggestion Of Insult Or Even By The Most Trifling Deception.

I Recall Feeling An Almost Delicious Terror When One Day I Found Myself Alone In The Midst Of Tall June Grasses That Grew High As My Head. But Here The Secret Working Of Self Consciousness Is Almost Too Entangled With The Things Of The Past For Me To Explain It.

I Still Went To Church Regularly Every Sunday; That Is We All Went There Together. I Reverenced The Family Pew Where We Had Assembled For So Many Years; And Apart From That Reason I Hold It Dear Because It Is Associated In My Memory With My Mother.