Houyhnhnm fields of oats". The Houyhnhnms are rational, equine beings and are masters of the land, contrasting strongly with the Yahoos, savage humanoid creatures who are no better than beasts of burden, or livestock. Whereas the Yahoos represent all that is bad about humans, Houyhnhnms have a settled, calm, reliable and rational society. Gulliver much prefers the Houyhnhnms' company to the Yahoos', even though the latter are biologically closer to him. It is possible to interpret the Houyhnhnms in a number of different ways. One might possibly, for example, regard them as a veiled criticism by Swift of the British Empire's
The Cat Who Thought He Was a Tiger Weller counts it amongst his favorite picture books. The Cat Who Thought He Was a Tiger The Cat Who Thought He Was A Tiger is a 1956 picture book by Polly Cameron. A striped cat believes he is a tiger. While his four brothers and sisters live, play, and eat together with a boy and girl in a house, he does things that he thinks tigers do like living alone in the backyard, eating grass, and sleeping in a tree. Later, he goes to a circus, meets a tiger and asks to play with it as "You're a tiger and