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If you doubt this, watch a cat carrying her kittens in her mouth, not one of them gives a single mew. The youthful gallant, who had certain fears about watering this fair, unfertile plain, was reassured by this speech. He thought then that it would only be following the commandments of God to win this saint to love; and he thought right.
And by the light of this one lamp the Nodding Donkey saw a curious sight. Over on his left the Plush Bear raised one paw and scratched his nose. On the Donkey's right the China Cat opened her china mouth and softly said: "Mew!" And then, on the next shelf, a Rolling Elephant, who could wheel about, spoke through his trunk, and said: "The time has come for us to have some fun, my friends!"
'If they would only purr for "yes" and mew for "no," or any rule of that sort, she had said, 'so that one could keep up a conversation! But how CAN you talk with a person if they always say the same thing? On this occasion the kitten only purred: and it was impossible to guess whether it meant 'yes' or 'no.
The woman who lies here was so remarkably stingy, that during her life she would get up in the night and mew, that her neighbors might think she kept a cat. What a miser she was! Here rests a young lady, of a good family, who would always make her voice heard in society, and when she sang "Mi manca la voce," it was the only true thing she ever said in her life.
He did try to mew, and he did try to wash his face with his paw, and to keep his tail still, but his success was not commensurate with his will. I do not know which was the sadder to reflect upon, his efforts to become a creditable kitten, or his foster- mother's despair of ever making him one. Later on we gave her a baby squirrel to rear.
"They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; * And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea mew."
"And am I so idle then," said the falconer, "that have three cast of hawks to look after, at perch and mew, and to fly them in the field to boot? and is my Lady's page so busy a man that he must take me up short? and am I of false English blood? I marvel what blood thou art neither Englander nor Scot fish nor flesh a bastard from the Debateable Land, without either kith, kin, or ally!
Danny always answered if you spoke to him, but he made no sound while always opening his mouth wide to mew whenever he had anything to say, and looking up into your face with all his heart expressed. These affectations of speech were most amusing, especially in so large a person as yellow Danny.
Thou hadst a slave lass once, I think; Mew: they called her Mew, her skin it was so white." "What's that to thee?" asked Thord, turning on him savagely. "Why, I meant no harm. I saw her at Waterford when I was a boy, and thought her a fair lass enough, that is all." And Martin dropped into the rear. By this time they were at the gates of St. Omer.
Then he stopped, and we heard the thrush "chuck" and the hermit call, which is different from other thrushes, being something between a squawk and a mew. Whether this were his conversation with his mate we could only guess, for we dared not move, hardly indeed to breathe.
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