Book is vii + 87 pp.; color illus. A collection of humorous poetry supposedly written by cats, with titles such as "The Dismal Isle of Innisfree," attributed to William Butler Yeats's cat, and "Meow of Myself, from Leaves of Catnip," attributed to Walt Whitman's cat. "Grendel's Dog, from Beocat" is attributed to "The Old English Epic's Unknown Author's Cat," and is given in "Modern English verse translation by the Editor's Cat." It has one accompanying illustration on p. 3.

The alliterative poem of 26 lines begins:

Brave Beocat,     brood-kit of Ecgthmeow,
Hearth-pet of Hrothgar     in whose high halls
He mauled without mercy     many fat mice,
Night did not find napping     nor snack-feasting. (2)

And ends:

"If hand of man unhasped     the heavy hall-door
And freed me to frolic forth     to fight the fang-bearing fiend,
I would lay the whelpling low     with lethal claw-blows;
Fur would fly     and the foe would taste death-food.
But resounding snooze-noise,     stern slumber-thunder,
Nose-music of men snoring     mead-hammered in the wine-hall,
Fills me with sorrow-feeling     for Fate does not see fit
To send some fingered folk     to lift the firm-fastened latch
That I might go grapple     with the grim ghoul-pooch."
Thus spoke the mouse-shredder,     hunter of hall-pests,
Short-haired Hrodent-slayer,     greatest of the pussy-Geats. (2)

BAM.