1878 – Tom driving Pussy from her food

“Tom driving Pussy from her food – by Harrison Weir” is a full page book plate image, taken from the “Chatterbox Album of Animals”, published by W.W.Gardner, circa 1878. The short anecdote accompanying the illustration, reads as follows: “Tom was a tame Pigeon which used to delight in teasing the cats. In the picture we see him driving poor Pussy from her food. Sometimes he would go into the bedroom, and finding Pussy asleep on the bed he would send her quickly down with a box on the ear from his flapping wing. Puss was quite a match for Tom when she was really angry.”

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