The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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... , earwigs , spiders , rats , and even poor little , harmless mice ; yet ladies have been known to keep white mice , and make pets of them after a time , when the first 49 Iadame - quitted ter her ! slowly i , 30 The Book of Cats .
... , earwigs , spiders , rats , and even poor little , harmless mice ; yet ladies have been known to keep white mice , and make pets of them after a time , when the first 49 Iadame - quitted ter her ! slowly i , 30 The Book of Cats .
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... rats , and even poor little , harmless mice ; yet ladies have been known to keep white mice , and make pets of them after a time , when the first timidity was overcome . There was a captive once , 30 The Book of Cats .
... rats , and even poor little , harmless mice ; yet ladies have been known to keep white mice , and make pets of them after a time , when the first timidity was overcome . There was a captive once , 30 The Book of Cats .
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... Rats , from nightly ambuscade , With wasteful teeth your stores invade . ' I grant , ' says Man , ' to general use Your parts and talents may conduce ; For rats and mice purloin our grain , And threshers whirl the flail in vain ; Thus ...
... Rats , from nightly ambuscade , With wasteful teeth your stores invade . ' I grant , ' says Man , ' to general use Your parts and talents may conduce ; For rats and mice purloin our grain , And threshers whirl the flail in vain ; Thus ...
Page 74
... rats first taught her to venture into the water , to which it is well known Puss has a natural aversion . She is now as fond of the water as a Newfoundland dog , and takes her regular peregrinations along the rocks at its edge , looking ...
... rats first taught her to venture into the water , to which it is well known Puss has a natural aversion . She is now as fond of the water as a Newfoundland dog , and takes her regular peregrinations along the rocks at its edge , looking ...
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... rats and mice— She was his only friend , ” — ( This is true pathos . ) " But when the Merchant went abroad , He Puss did with him send . " ( This part wants thinking over . It means Whit- tington sent the Cat with his master ; please ...
... rats and mice— She was his only friend , ” — ( This is true pathos . ) " But when the Merchant went abroad , He Puss did with him send . " ( This part wants thinking over . It means Whit- tington sent the Cat with his master ; please ...
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Page 258 - Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
Page 259 - Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize ; Nor all that glisters gold.
Page 86 - Whittington and his Cat, and that, in order to it, there had been got together a great quantity of mice ; but Mr. Rich, the proprietor of the playhouse, very prudently considered that it would be impossible for the cat to kill them all...