Louis Wain Fact #56:
In Wain’s nineteen eight annual, there’s an illustration of “That Cat Again!” This is a playful and self-aware reference to this particular jaunty, almost drunken cat, versions of which has been redrawn and republished year after year and seems to be a personal favourite of Wain’s
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SHOP-BOY: "Since we had this notice in the shop-window 'Old Boots polished up to look like new,' they keeps coming in all day long. I wish this 'ere Cherry Blossom Boot Polish had never been invented."
OLD CAT: "Ah, my lad, don't you wish you could invent some-thing half as useful?"