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express my admiration for his acumen. I am not much offended at the ill-treatment from the maid who is unable to take in what kind of a cat I am. The day will come when a Hidari Jingorô* would adorn temples and palaces with the carvings of my figure, and a Japanese Steinlen would be glad to picture my features on canvas. Then it is that such a simpleton as the maid will be ashamed of their own shortsightedness.
* A famous sculptor of the Tokugawa era. He was left-handed. Hence the surname Hidari.
