" "Too much thinking killed a cat.

I have seen a great many cats, but I never saw one as kind as Malta.

" Samuel gave a weak smile, and drawing up a stool took the cat upon his knee.

At that, I jumped back, in sudden fright, and threw my gun forward, in readiness; only to laugh, nervously, as Pepper reappeared, chasing an unfortunate cat.

With parting injunctions to my namesake to let the cat alone, not to "track up" the kitchen, and not to play with matches, the little woman lovingly cuffed the conspiring lesser Sullivans into a decorous line behind her and marched them off to church.

It's raining cats and dogsbut I mustn't say that, or there'll be no getting you to stay.

It was nothing new for the Morrises to feed deserted cats.

I must not forget that I brought on shore two cats and a dog.

Jim and I never worried 'his' cat.

I suppose you'll have a muff made out of this nice fur for somebody?" continued Will, stroking the cat.

There were two folding chairs that could be used on occasion, and the back seat easily accommodated three, the "Autocrat" being a seven passenger car; but Patsy was perched in front beside Wampus, which was really the choicest seat of all, so there was ample room inside to "swing a cat," as the Major statedif anyone had cared to attempt such a feat.

The first woman had managed to get into the room, and while I was arguing with her, trying to convince her that I did not want her blamed old cat, the others found their way in.

"I quite forgot you don't like cats.

Each was sensible of a secret pleasure that somebody else had dared to bell the cat.

A kid! There came a dog, who bit the cat, who ate the kid, which my father bought for two pieces of money.

"Best thing you can do if you want me to try and find that cat," says Bob Pretty, "is to give me the fifteen pounds now, and I'll go and look for it at once.

There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile: He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

In short, a careful examination throughout the house failed to disclose a living creature, save a big Maltese cat which purred and rubbed in friendly fashion against the girls.

Then Utgard-Loki proposed to him the childish exercise of lifting his cat.

Yes, sir, I knew a tom-cat that was an assassin.

They leave the fisher-cat, an' the mink, an' the ermine, an' the marten; but the lynxsacré an' damn!they jump on him an' pull the fur from him like you pull the wild cotton balls from the burn-bush!

Much as I love my cat, I couldn't allow that.

How they got a cat up there I do not know, for they are as shy as my aunt about entering a canoe.

" "What!" exclaimed Miss Dora; "what on earth do you mean?" "I mean cats," he replied, "or rather kittens.

He laughed and produced the big, white Persian cats, changed them into kittens, then into birds and butterflies, and finally into a bowl full of big, staring goldfish.