Thanks,
astrangerhere. It sounds as if
issybird was "right on the money".
I was amused to pick up in Chapter 1 of Volume II, as the cat was ruminating on how cats like to wander around and don't bother about boundaries:
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... all land-ownership is unnatural and irrational. That, in fact, is my conviction, therefore I enter wherever I like. Naturally, I do not go anywhere where I do not want to go: but, provided they are in the direction I fancy, all places are alike to me.
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For anyone who has read Rudyard Kipling's
Just So Stories, that comment is immediately recognisable:
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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
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The Kipling was published in 1902, and this was published a few years later. It could be coincidence of course, as it certainly reflects the attitude of cats.