Introduction / by Roger Caras
The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling
The cat by the fire / Leigh Hunt
The white cat / W.W. Jacobs
The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe
Cats / Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The 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
The conscientious cat / Agnes A. Sandham
He wrote to the rats / Julian Ralph
The philanthropist and the happy cat / Saki
Midshipman, the cat / John Coleman Adams
A 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
The witch's cat / Manly Wade Wellman
A feline felony / Lael J. Littke
The Cyprian cat / Dorothy L. Sayers
Novice / James H. Schmitz
My father, the cat / Henry Slesar
The sin of Madame Phloi / Lilian Jackson Braun
The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét
The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith
Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber
Spooner / Eleanor Farjeon
The story of Webster / P.G. Wodehouse
Out of place / Pamela Sargent
Cat nipped / Jack Schaefer
The cat who lived in a drainpipe / Joan Aiken
Some are born cats / Terry and Carol Carr
Autumn : the garden of stubborn cats / Italo Calvino.