Publisher's Synopsis
TO have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your whiskers trimmed. Butround wooden shoes, shaped like bowls, are not comfortable wear, however much it mayamuse the onlooker to see you try to walk in them. If you have a nice fur coat like acompany promoter's, it is most annoying to be made to swim in it. And if you had a tail, surely it would be solely your own affair; that any one should tie a tin can to it would strikeyou as an unwarrantable impertinence-to say the least.Yet it is difficult for an outsider to see these things from the point of view of both thepersons concerned. To Maurice, scissors in hand, alive and earnest to snip, it seemed themost natural thing in the world to shorten the stiff whiskers of Lord Hugh Cecil by agenerous inch. He did not understand how useful those whiskers were to Lord Hugh, bothin sport and in the more serious business of getting a living. 2 Also it amused Maurice tothrow Lord Hugh into ponds, though Lord Hugh only once permitted this liberty. To putwalnuts on Lord Hugh's feet and then to watch him walk on ice was, in Maurice's opinion, as good as a play. Lord Hugh was a very favourite cat, but Maurice was discreet, and LordHugh, except under violent suffering, was at that time anyhow, dum
