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If it were not for being called on to act and mew, I would stay, fight, meet a bayonet-hedge of charges and rebut them. I have my natural weapons and my cause. It must be confessed that I have also more knowledge of men and the secret contempt it must be the best of them entertain for us. Oh! and we confirm it if we trust them. But they have been at a wicked school. 'I will write.
Strange name very!" said Sir James. "Are you sure it was Cat Street?" "Well, I ain't quite sure, sir," replied the little plain one, with an inquiring frown at the chandelier, "but I know it 'ad somethink to do with cats. P'r'aps it was Mew Street; but I'm quite sure it was Pimlico." "And the lady's name?" "Well, sir, I ain't sure of that neither.
My boarders, too, were great hands to complain if they did not get their meals regularly. You might have thought that cat and dog were paying good money for their board, the way they would mew and whine if a meal were late. I took very good care of the chickens, giving them plenty of warm food, so from about Christmas I got a dozen or more eggs each week.
The children stop at three, however, and have let off a tremendous amount of steam in the operation. Any wholesome device which accomplishes this result is worthy of being perpetuated.... A draggled, forsaken little street-cat sneaks in the door, with a pitiful mew.
But strange to hear my Lord Lauderdale say himself that he had rather hear a cat mew than the best musique in the world; and the better the musique, the more sick it makes him; and that of all instruments, he hates the lute most, and next to that, the baggpipe. 29th. All the town is full of a victory. By and by a letter from Sir W. Coventry tells me that we have the victory.
"Ye call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters," they cried, "and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms, retaining our right to defend our women, our liberty, and our religion, against the foreign tyrant.
I abandoned that plan, and resolved to go to a grove not heretofore invaded, being absolutely impenetrable from undergrowth. My way led across a cornfield, over stone walls, through thickets and bushes everywhere. Many other birds I startled, and at last came a chat's "mew" from a wild jungle of ailantus and brambles, which nothing less effective than an axe could pass through.
"Now, what do you know about that!" said the boy. "Why should I know anything about your cat? Maybe I have cabbages in this basket." "Cabbages wouldn't mew," said Peggy, as the occupant of the basket gave a long wail. "It's our cat, I know her voice!" cried Alice in delight. "Won't you come in and see mother?" Peggy asked, as the boy stepped inside the small entry and put his basket down.
Can't we have one, Jack?" "No," replied Jack, "we can't have a sail, but I hope we shall have a row, as I intend to work hard at the oars this afternoon, and, if we can't get them finished by sunset, we'll light our candle-nuts, and turn them out of hands before we turn into bed." "Very good," said Peterkin, tossing a lump of pork to the cat, who received it with a mew of satisfaction.
He was lying there with his eyes closed; but when I bent over him he opened them and gave a pitiful little mew; or rather his mouth made the motion of a mew, for he was too weak to utter a sound." "Oh, poor, poor Paddy," said tender-hearted Cecily tearfully. "He couldn't stand, so I carried him home and gave him just a little milk. Fortunately he was able to lap it.
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