The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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... upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds ; They've Madame Catalini there to open her white throat , But to hear your foreign singers I would not give a groat ; So haste away unto the play , whose name has The Book of Cats . II.
... upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds ; They've Madame Catalini there to open her white throat , But to hear your foreign singers I would not give a groat ; So haste away unto the play , whose name has The Book of Cats . II.
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... give you some others very slightly abridged . " A year or two ago , a man in the south of Ireland severely chastised his cat for some misdemeanour , immediately after which the animal stole away , and was seen no more . " A few days ...
... give you some others very slightly abridged . " A year or two ago , a man in the south of Ireland severely chastised his cat for some misdemeanour , immediately after which the animal stole away , and was seen no more . " A few days ...
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... give the author's words as I find them : — " The Cat is a faithless domestic , and only kept through necessity to oppose to another domestic which incommodes us still more , and which we can- not drive away ; for we pay no respect to ...
... give the author's words as I find them : — " The Cat is a faithless domestic , and only kept through necessity to oppose to another domestic which incommodes us still more , and which we can- not drive away ; for we pay no respect to ...
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... give warning to his prey if he were to attempt to pass through too dense a bush , and this , in conjunction with the soft cushions of his feet , and the fur upon which he treads ( the retractable claws never com- ing in contact with the ...
... give warning to his prey if he were to attempt to pass through too dense a bush , and this , in conjunction with the soft cushions of his feet , and the fur upon which he treads ( the retractable claws never com- ing in contact with the ...
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... give her a chapter all to herself . Having come to this conclusion , the ques- tion naturally arose where were the authorities . I made search , I read deeply , but I gathered small matter on which I could place reliance , and I Of ...
... give her a chapter all to herself . Having come to this conclusion , the ques- tion naturally arose where were the authorities . I made search , I read deeply , but I gathered small matter on which I could place reliance , and I Of ...
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