United States or Ethiopia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But there is a reason for it: the cat first began to do that to teach her kittens how to catch mice, when she was a wild animal in the fields. Once upon a time the cat was a wild animal, but now people have tamed it into a domestic animal. So the cat still retains some of its wild habits.
It was subsequently found in vast numbers, inhabiting the sandy ridges from Fort Grey to Lake Torrens. Those immense banks of sand were in truth marked over with their footprints as if an army of mice or rats had been running over them. They are not much larger than a mouse, have a beautiful full black eye, long ears, and tail feathered towards the end.
It is so exciting it makes me feel all creepy! Just like I make the mice feel when they smell me sitting outside their holes waiting for them to come out so I may pounce upon them. Begin and tell me all about it! Don't leave a thing out that you know. I want it all! How many were there? How did they get in? What did they take, and have they been caught?" "Go slow, Tabby!
Rod Wheat and Ash Borrowstone had made their beds down some distance from the wagon; the coyotes as they circled round the camp came near their bed, and in sniffing about awoke Borrowstone. There was no more danger of attack from these cowards than from field mice, but their presence annoyed Ash, and as he dared not shoot, he threw his boots at the varmints.
She and Koolee both plunged into the tunnel like mice down a mouse hole. Nip and Tup were ahead of them. Outside they found Koko's mother and the baby. Koolee called to her, and she called to the wives of the Angakok, who were scraping a bear's skin in the snow.
Birds are noted for taking exquisite care of their plumage, and if the feathers become at all dingy or unkempt, we know the bird is in bad health. What a time the deer and the bears, the squirrels and the mice, have when changing their dress! Rags and tatters; tatters and rags!
Polly was cutting up apples for pies; and Nabby was washing dishes, when the rats and mice smote her deaf ears again. "I knew I heerd 'em then," she said; "I don't believe but what them grain-chists is full of 'em." "I am going to look," quoth Mrs. Polly then, in a tone of decision, and straightway she rose and got a candle. Ann's heart beat terribly.
I never heard such a noise in my life! You'd think they really had something to be afraid of." "Yes, wouldn't you? Instead of just a basket full of poor, innocent little mice that were a lot more frightened than they were!" "Dolly Ransom!" gasped Bessie. "Do you mean to say that's what you did?"
To be sure, we don't quite get rid of the rats, and need a trap for the mice; but if you have a good family cat it is safer. About window-curtains I mean the drapery ones we have the same trouble in deciding every year.
So for a hundred years and a day he had got allegiance only from the Cats of the Western World; that is, from Ireland and the Islands beyond. The tribute he received was still worth having. In May he was sent a boatful of herring. In August he was let have two boatfuls of mackerel. In November he was given five barrels of preserved mice.
Word Of The Day