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"Very well, very well!" said the Corporal chucking up his chin, "Jacobina can take care of herself! Jacobina knows her friends and her foes as well as her master! Jacobina never injures her friends, never forgives foes. Look to yourself! look to yourself! insult my cat, insult me! Swear at Jacobina, indeed!" "If she steals my cream!" cried Peter "Did she ever steal your cream?" "No! but, if "
"I did not think you had so good a memory, Corporal," said Peter smiling; the cat was now curling itself up in his lap: "after all, Jacobina what a deuce of a name seems gentle enough." "Gentle as a lamb soft as butter kind as cream and such a mouser!" "But I don't think Dorothy " "I'll settle Dorothy." "Well, when will you look up?"
So saying, the Corporal, got up, walked into his house, and presently came back with a little net in his hand. "There, Peter, net for you, to hold lemons. Thank Jacobina for that; she got the string. So, for your sake, Peter, she got into this here scrape augh." "Ah!" quoth Peter laughing, "poor Puss! poor Pussy! poor little Pussy!"
Come, Jacobina, we will lock up the house, and go and see the quarters I have provided for you. Heigho!" As he finished his harangue, the Corporal locked the door of his cottage, and Jacobina trotting by his side, he stalked with his usual stateliness to the Spotted Dog. Dame Dorothy Dealtry received him with a clouded brow, but the man of the world knew whom he had to deal with.
But it has humbug you have no humbug, Jacobina. On the faith of a man, Jacobina, you be better than the world! baugh! You takes care of your own interest, but you takes care of your master's too! You loves me as well as yourself. Few cats can say the same, Jacobina! and no gossip that flings a stone at your pretty brindled skin, can say half as much.
On Wednesday morning Jacobina was inducted into the comforts of the hearth of mine host; and her four little kittens mewed hard by, from the sinecure of a basket lined with flannel. Reader. Here is wisdom in this chapter: it is not every man who knows how to dispose of his cat! Fall. Out, out, unworthy to speak where he breatheth.... Punt.
Seated in the servants' hall of the Manor-house, in a large arm-chair, Jacobina on his knee, and his trusty musket, which, to the great terror of the womankind, had never been uncocked throughout the day, still grasped in his right hand, while the stock was grounded on the floor; he indulged in martial harangues, plentifully interlarded with plagiarisms from the worshipful translations of Messrs.
But howsomever, I do my best to supply his place Jacobina, child, be still: I can't say as I knows the musket-sarvice, your honour; but I fancy's as how, like Joe Roarjug, the Methodist, we can do it extemporaneous-like at a pinch." "A bold heart, Peter, is the best preparation," said the squire.
"You could not find a more effectual method of putting them to flight, Peter," said Madeline smiling; "but go and talk to my uncle. I know we have a whole magazine of blunderbusses and guns at home: they may be useful now. But you are well provided in case of attack. Have you not the Corporal's famous cat Jacobina, surely a match for fifty robbers?"
When I'm gone, Jacobina will have no one to feed her. She'll feed herself will go to every larder, every house in the place your's best larder, best house; will come to you oftenest. If your wife attempts to drive her away, scratch her eyes out; if you disturb her, serve you worse than Joe Webster's little boy: wanted to prevent this won't now, d d if I do!"
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