XIX EXCHANGING THE OLIVE-BRANCH The cat jumped off Abe's lap, running to Samuel with a mew of recognition.

Now gently put her off; see how direct To her known mew she flies!

Now, o' the other side, I'll fall in with the scholar, and him I'll handle cunningly too; I'll tell him that Lelia has acquainted me with her love to him, and for Because her father much suspects the same, He mews her up as men do mew their hawks; And so restrains her from her Sophos' sight.

But it uttered a pitiful: "Mew!" Inch by inch, foot by foot Joe advanced.

With a little "mew," the animal took the very position Joe wanted it toextended along his back, close to his head.

In hundred formes to change his fearefull hew; When as at length I saw the wrathfull winde, Which blows cold storms, burst out of Scithian mew, That sperst these cloudes; and, in so short as thought, This dreadfull shape was vanished to nought.

Little Robin chirped and sang, and what did Pussy say? Pussy-Cat said: "Mew, mew, mew," and Robin flew away.

Little Robin chirped and sang, and what did Pussy say? Pussy-Cat said: "Mew, mew, mew," and Robin flew away.

Little Robin chirped and sang, and what did Pussy say? Pussy-Cat said: "Mew, mew, mew," and Robin flew away.

my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue, The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew.

V. divest; uncover &c (cover) &c 223; denude, bare, strip; disfurnish^; undress, disrobe &c (dress, enrobe) &c 225; uncoif^; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.

[horse]; bray [donkey, mule, hinny, ass]; mew, mewl [kitten]; meow [cat]; purr [cat]; caterwaul, pule [cats]; baa^, bleat [lamb]; low, moo

A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.

The male calls with a hoarse harsh cry, something between the grunt of a pig and the bellow of a bull; the call of the tigress is more like the prolonged mew of a cat much intensified.

At that the wild clans of the air Came sweeping in a mist of wings Ospreys and fierce solanders there, Sea-swallows wheeling mazy rings, The foam-white mew, the green-black scart, The famishing hawk, the wailing tern, All birds from the sand-building mart To lonely bittern and heron....

Peter had built himself a comfortable den beneath the table and was having a quiet game of Bears with Mittens, the cat, for his cubquiet, that is, except for an angry mew now and then from Mittens, who had not enjoyed an easy moment since the arrival of the three children that morning.

Our cat she had five little ones, As every person knew; Their names were "Flossie," "Snowball," "Smut," With "Kit," and little "Mew."

"In which some only bleat, bark, mew, whinny, and bray, a little better than others.

(In The Mew Yorker, June 12, 1943)

(In The Mew Yorker, June 12, 1943)

Bow wow and mew mew.

Bow wow and mew mew.

(In The Mew Yorker, June 28, 1947)

(In Mew York post, Dec. 4, 1946)

Then how the pussy-cats did mew What else, poor pussies, could they do?