Excerpt from The History of Whittington and His Cat: With Copper-Plate Cuts Who has not heard of "Whittington and his Cat?" Nay, the fact is, that the cat is much more famous than this her master, in the histories already brought forward in Whittington's name; for, whilst Madam Puss has all her merits set out to the best advantage, because she happened to be the source of her master's great wealth, the wonderful conduct of her wonderful master in his high-raised condition is thrown into shade: whereas, it is our resolution, by the help of Stowe, the ancient chronologist, to do perfect justice to both the one and the other in due order; and therefore, of course, begin this our history with her master. Little Whittington was a poor orphan; and this at so early an age, as not to have any trace in his memory of what he was, or what he might have been, from being totally ignorant of what his parents were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.