jonquil jabot has a sentimental attachment to one particular small wooden cat , painted in yellow , orange and scarlet stripes , whom she calls jeoffrey and to whom she recites on a daily basis the famous lines of poet christopher smart : `` for now i will consider my cat jeoffrey '' , the preface to a forty-two minute yogic meditation ( incense stick optional ) on the nature of `` soul '' in the small wooden cat .