When calendered, or what is now termed evenly balanced side markings, the dark spine I think the former the handsomer breed, with the well denned and
Tabbies-the splashed or heavily marked, and the barred or ticked. The word “tabby” is supposed to have had its origin in a certain street in Bagdad called “Atab,” which was chiefly inhabited by weavers of a particular kind of material called ” Atabi.” This is what Harrison Weir says on the subject :-” The word ‘ tabby ‘ was derived from a kind of taffeta, or ribbed silk, which Then, again, the ignorant in the cat world have an extraordinary notion that tabbies are always females ! Perhaps because we sometimes hear a meddlesome or gossiping woman called a “tabby”-and I had a dear old friend who always bade me beware of ” tabby bipeds ” among catty communities ! I know there is a kind of idea that brown tabbies are a common sort of cat, and this breed is often spoken of in a most disparaging way. They are a hardy race, and as such I have frequently recommended novices in the fancy to start with a good brown queen, and with ordinary care they may reasonably expect to rear litter after litter without the difficulties and disasters that one hears of in connect on with the bringing up of Persian kittens in general. That no Persian cats are so healthy and strong as brown tabbies. There is something so comfortable and homely about these dear brownies-they seem to have more intelligent and expressive countenances than any other cats, and I am firmly of opinion I cannot explain it, but certain it is that of all the feline race (blues not excepted) the warmest corner in my heart has always been kept for the brown tabbies. I never knew either ” Rajah ” or “Mater” troubled with a day’s illness, and if one of their kittens had died such an event would have caused as much astonishment as grief. ” Rajah ” was wholly and devotedly attached to the lady of his choice, namely, my blue Persian ” Mater.” These two names occur in the pedigree of many a prize-winner of the present day, and very numerous were the lovely litters I reared from this eminently respectable pair of Persians. He became my stud cat ” Rajah,” called after an Indian prince who was visiting us at that time.
MY first prize-winning kitten was a brown tabby, exhibited many years ago at the Crystal Palace. BROWN TABBY PERSIANS MISS SIMPSON´S BROWN TABBY “PERSIMMON” Texte und Bilder aus “THE BOOK OF THE CAT” von Frances Simpson aus dem Jahre 1903 THE BOOK OF THE CAT CHAPTER XIX.
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