Froude’s Cat

This cat wanted to know what was good for life, and everyone gave her queer answers. The owl said, “Meditate, O cat;” and so she tried to think which could have come first, the fowl or the egg. (Short Studies on Great Subjects.)

“If I were to ask, like Froude’s cat, ‘What is my duty?ʹ you would answer, I suppose, like the sagacious animal in the parable, ‘Get your own dinuer … . that is my duty, I suppose.ʹ”—Edna Lyall: Donovan, chap. ix.