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As for the violently artificial rhythms and rhymes which have reappeared of late in English and American literature, Emerson would as soon have tried to ride three horses at once in a circus as to shut himself up in triolets, or attempt any cat's-cradle tricks of rhyming sleight of hand.
"He is not yet near enough my ankles to please me." "You little fool," said I between my teeth, "do you think you can play alley-taw and cat's-cradle with a man like that?" Then a cold temper flashed in her eyes. "A man like that," she repeated. "And pray, dear friend, what manner of man may be 'a man like that?"
The old lady bent above them, silent and puzzled, to get the key to the strings. Twice she protruded her gouty fingers, with swollen ends; and twice she drew them back to stroke her brows. 'I mind, she said suddenly, 'that I played cat's-cradle with my cousin Anne, that was a sinful queen. She bent again and puzzled about the strings. 'In those days I had a great skill, I mind.
Even the boche watchdog, now thoroughly annoyed, did not convince me. As though reading my doubts, an officer beckoned, and we stepped outside the breastworks and into an intricate cat's-cradle of barbed-wire. It was lashed to heavy stakes and wound around the tree trunks, and, had the officer not led the way, it would have been impossible for me to get either in or out.
The young women of these hamlets had each a long braid of yellow hair down her back, blue eyes, and a white bodice with a cat's-cradle lacing behind; the men had bell-crowned hats and spindle-legs: they buttoned the breath out of their bodies with round pewter buttons on tight, short crimson waistcoats.
She hated everything irresolute or vague; people might play at cat's-cradle or study Spinoza, just as they pleased; but, whatever they did, they must give their minds to it. She kept house from an easy-chair, and ruled her dependants with severity tempered by wit, and by the very sweetest voice in which reproof was ever uttered.
Once Sandy went to Frimley with the Needham Farm shepherd, and when David came to fetch him he found the boy and Margaret playing cat's-cradle together by the fire, and the eagerness in Sandy's pursed lips, and on the ethereally blanched and shrunken face of Margaret, brought the tears to David's eyes, as he stood smiling and looking on.
I'd back him at cat's-cradle, and I dare say he plays a very fair game at noughts-and-crosses. Besides, he'll do what he's told, and fetch things for you. You'll find him a handy and obliging chap to have about." "Sounds delightful," said Urquhart pleasantly. He turned to Lucy. "We'll give him Lingen, shall we?" She said, "By all means. It doesn't matter in the least to me."
He grinned: "With headin's in thunderin' big capitals.... 'The Soldier Hero Sports With A Babbling Babe.... The Defender Of British Prestige At Gueldersdorp Puts In Half an Hour At Cat's-Cradle Ere The Armoured Train Toddles Out With The B.S.A.P. To Give Beans To The Blooming Boer!" She darted at him, caught him by the lapels ... made him look at her. "It's true? You really mean it?
Katharine mused for a moment above the cat's-cradle on her fingers. Near the joint at the end of the little one there was a small mole. 'Take you the fifth and third strings, she said.
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