But if there was a cat in the sixth ward, that didn't have something to say on that roof every night, I should like to make its acquaintance.

There he plumped me down, and stood glowering at me like a cat with a sparrow.

And, lastly, a large mastiff made his appearance, walking in a slow, measured gait, with a sleek tortoise-shell cat on his back; and she, in turn, was surmounted by a mouse, which formed the apex of this singular pyramid.

And it loved him, like the big spotted cat of the hills, and only pretended to be angry with him when it wanted to play, and would do him no harm.

She tipped the sacred yellow cat out of the rocking-chair where it always slept in state, took the chair herself, and sent that astonished feline from the room.

He must be thinking he's got a hell-cat for a father.

I've grown a goitre by dwelling in this den As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy, Or in what other land they hap to be Which drives the belly close beneath the chin:

I thought it was a cat at first.

No sea captain becalmed in the doldrums ever whistled for a wind more earnestly than the British Jack tars prayed for a chance at the enemy during those three months of playing the cat to Germany's mouse; and on the other hand, the German sailors were, no doubt, equally desirious of a chance to demonstrate the fighting abilities of their brand-new battleships.

By Clemence Robert THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA By Henry Murger THE WOMAN AND THE CAT By Marcel Prevost GIL BLAS AND DR.

For the rest there are some gleams of real fun where a beach-comber tries to palm off a dyed cat as the long-deferred tortoise-shell, and the exit of this animal from a world too covetous to hold it is thoroughly sound farce.

This shows how much men are limited by their senses, and how true is the remark that Goethe makes in Tasso about the dominant influence of the present moment: Die Gegenwart ist eine mächtige Göttin [Footnote 1: Act iv., se. 4.] Friends of the house are very rightly so called; because they are friends of the house rather than of its master; in other words, they are more like cats than dogs.

I promised to set a trap and buy a cat before evening, and was closing the door upon the subject, being already rather late at the office, when the expression of Gertrude Fellows's face detained me.

I don't intend to exaggerate, but I honestly believe that there were less than three hundred cats over against me, on the roofs of the out-houses; each one of which had a tail bigger than a Bologna sausage, his back crooked up like an oxbow, and his great round eyes gleaming fiercely in the moonlight, putting in his very best in the way of catterwauling.

When a dog assumes the cozy habits of the cat without laying off his nobler nature, he is my friend.

Reggie and I have always fought like cats across a wire, and as for CrosbyI would as life marry the great Cham of Tartary.

Panther and wild-cat under their furry coats felt no thrill of coming dispossession, and saw nothing through their great golden eyes but the dawning of a day just like all other dayswhen "the sun ariseth and they gather themselves into their dens and lay them down."

Yet Croisset spoke softly and without excitement, even while his shoulders and arms were twitching like a forest cat about to spring.

"Even a cat like Fisher is our friend.

I do not ask him to imitate the boy who, cliff-bred from his youth, used to spend stolen hours on the house-top, with his back against a chimney-stalk, transfiguring in his imagination the roof-slopes into mountain-sides, the slates into sheets of rock, the cats into lions, and the sparrows into eagles.

Often the little dog comes and suns himself close by, and the little cat beside the dog, and the little pig beside the cat, and the little hen beside the pig,a "Happy Family," a row of little traps to catch sunbeams, all down the lane.

One of the best of these tales is The Cat that Walked by Himself, which has distinct ethical value in showing how the cat through service won his place by the fireside.

The minute they discover that the letter is a fake they'll come for the real one like cats after a canary." "Let 'em come!" smiled Jeremy, but Grim shook his head.

Have one of the servants do it; we'll get the cat between us then and corner him.

" He scratched the cat behind the ear, and despite himself his face darkened.