“Take that” was the punctuation of a hero's fist or bullet. “Had enough yet, Big Shot? There's more where that came from.”

They [the author's cats] loved a large Ordnance Survey map above all things, or a clamber across the electric typewriter (though they never succeeded in typing their names, as my Chiltern cat Pip, in a moment of serendipitous dancing, very nearly did).

How could the Bodies of many of them (particularly the laſt mentioned ) be furniſhed with architective Materials?

Section 1427: makes it a misdemeanour for anyone not the owner wilfully to injure, misfigure, remove or destroy the work of art, and, similarly Section 1428: provides that the person who wilfully or maliciously cuts, tears, defaces, disfigures, soils, obliterates, breaks or destorys an object of art or curiosity deposited in a public library, gallery, museum, collection, fair or exhibition is punishable by prison or fine, or both.