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"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?"
"Po-o-o-r old Hare," came back a dismal echo from the little boat already some distance away. Then they saw that the False Hare had freed his paws that string must have been made of paper like his clothes and his umbrella and was standing up in his boat waving a gay farewell to all aboard the Merry Mouser. "Good-by, kidlets!" he called in mocking tones.
Her cry was so shrill that the baby boy opened his jaws and let the unfortunate Piccolissima fall on the floor. She did not recover for a long time from this fall. Another time, a large cat, a great mouser, ran after her, and it was with difficulty they rescued Piccolissima from the claws of Raminagrobis. The father, Mr.
"Now we come to the interesting part to me!" "But I shan't gratify you, you mouser! It is enough to say, that in a few simple words, uttered, I am sure, without forethought, she placed my frivolity before me, and then showed me what I might and ought to be. I was like a grasshopper before, drunk with dew, and then sobered by a plunge into a clear, cool spring.
Aunt Elizabeth was not fond of cats, and cat hairs were her abomination. Doris had uttered an ejaculation of delight when she saw it one morning, a big black fellow with white feet and a white choker. "Don't touch him he'll scratch you like as not!" exclaimed Mrs. Leverett in a quick tone. "Get out, Tom! We don't allow him in the house. He's a good mouser, but it spoils cats to nurse them.
Tommie didn't wink, for he knew the ways of court, his grandfather having been chief mouser to old King Adelbert; but he purred a warm good purr, like a mill grinding out pure white grain. "If the sky in heaven be blue, Then Mountfalcon loves you true; If the sun set in the West, Lord Mountfalcon loves you best." "You see," he added, "I'm not much of a poet, but those are the facts."
It was clear that carnivorous tastes were not the whole solution, for Roxana was famed as a notable mouser. "Your principle?" Sebastian asked our sibyl, in his brief, quick way. Hilda's cheek wore a glow of pardonable triumph. The great teacher had deigned to ask her assistance. "I judged by the analogy of Indian hemp," she answered. "This is clearly a similar, but much stronger, narcotic.
"It was in my head years ago, and went to sleep there," answered Ben impressively "but the sight of just sich a face, and just sich a cretur, all but the color, prowling about this ere very house in and out like a mouser has woke up the idee agin, and my own mother couldn't sing it to sleep, if she rose from the dead with the old lol-lo-by on her lips.
Cats of all sizes and all kinds, cats of all ages, from tiny furry babies wheeled in perambulators by their mamas to gray old grandpas hobbling along by the aid of canes or crutches all the cats of Catnip Island had trooped down to the shore to watch the landing of the Merry Mouser. Captain Mittens, decked out in the False Hare's jewelry, was the first to leave the pirate ship.
At last, after much coaxing, Rudolf got the whole party to sit down in a circle on the deck and consult with him on some plan of action. "We must make up our minds," said he firmly, "on where we are going, and what is the nearest land, and what we are going to do when we get there, and who is in command of the Merry Mouser, anyway, and "
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