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Updated: June 2, 2025
His way had been a march of triumph. To Hamilton Burton it was all like the sniffing of frankincense and myrrh. His inner emotions were those of a great tiger, purring like a house-cat. That at his back, when he had passed on, these immaculately clad gentlemen muttered derogatory oaths only flattered him further; their hate, too, was a tribute to his power.
She went down into the hall again, and circled round and round it like a wild creature in a cage. At the third turn, she felt something moving softly against her dress. The house-cat had come up through the open kitchen door a large, tawny, companionable cat that purred in high good temper, and followed her for company.
His claws, too, were very long and white, and very wickedly curved; and before starting out on a hunt he would often get up on his hind legs and sharpen those of his forefeet on a tree-trunk, just as your house-cat sharpens hers on the leg of the kitchen-table.
"I have thought of a story for you to tell us this afternoon the story of the barn-cat that wanted so much to become a house-cat. Don't you remember that story you used to tell us long ago?" "Oh, yes!" Mollie said; "her name was Furry-Purry, and she lived with Granny Barebones, and there was Tom Tom some thing; what was his name? Tell us that, Aunt Ruth, do!"
Birds in hot rooms, covered up close and dark, felt it was morning, and chafed and grew restless in their little cells; bright-eyed mice crept back to their tiny homes and nestled timidly together; the sleek house-cat, forgetful of her prey, sat winking at the rays of sun starting through keyhole and cranny in the door, and longed for her stealthy run and warm sleek bask outside.
"'And you know every body? "'If you mean in the first rank of society yes. Your Barebones, and Hop-an'-jumps, and creatures of that vulgar herd, are quite out of my category. "'Perhaps you know of some house-cat dead or gone away? "'And if I do? "'You might put me in her place, you know. "'Yellow Cat, said Mrs. Tabitha, severely. "'If you please, my name is Furry-Purry.
The soldier, too, returned, bearing the seven objects which had accompanied her travels. "You will clean mademoiselle's shoes, brush her uniform, and bring her hot water when she needs it," ordered the commandant, and the soldier saluted impassively a watch-dog who had been told that it was the house-cat after all.
The dog was the son of the wolf, and the house-cat was the daughter of the panther; the teal was of the children of the grey goose; and who fathered the sparrow-hawk but the eagle? When all things were properly disposed, and placed in a condition to subsist, and to continue of themselves, the Universal Mother, having accomplished her designs, joyfully ascended to the sky which she had left.
"Why is it that for a month, an' sometimes two months, the mother gives her cubs milk while she's still what you might call asleep? Her nap ain't much more'n two-thirds over when the cubs are born. "And why ain't them cubs bigger'n they are? That natcherlist laughed until I thought he'd split when I told him a grizzly bear cub wasn't much bigger'n a house-cat kitten when born!"
I went to the house of one good widow, who said: "'Fesser, I ain't got nothin' to pay you wid but dis 'ere house-cat, and he's a good'n. I owes you twenty-five cents, and I wants to pay it. You done my little gal good more'n any teacher ever did. She ain't stop' washin' her face yit when she gits up in de mornin'." "Very well," I said, "I'll take the cat with thanks and call the debt square."
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