Her confessor tells her to wait a year, until the procession passes again, then hold a black cat tightly in her arms, and restore the arm to its owner.
The cat replied that her master, Constantine, had sent him a hare which he had caught.
The cat (as we said above) continued to carry gifts to the royal palace, and thus supported her master.
Among other things he trained a cat to stand on the table and hold a lighted candle while he was eating.
She took the bright eyes of the cat for live coals and tried to light the match by them, and hit the cat in the eyes.
The cat and the weasel had no longer any desire to prolong their journey; but the cock and hen continued their way.
The cat accepted him, and said: "Let us go and be married, for you please me.
She shut the kitchen door and left the dog and the cat inside.
The cat went and scratched and scratched and down went the cover.
The catjumped in her face and scratched her frightfully.
But the Farmer had a big black cat that used to prowl about watching for mice.
He could not make it out; but at last a thought came into his mind, that perhaps the pious Cat might know more about it than he chose to tell.
You see it is just as absurd to suppose that a crane would help fish, as to think that a cat would be kind to a mouse.
So next day, when the Farmer gave Mousie his dinner, Mousie carried it off to the black Cat, and the black Cat spat and swore and ate it up, and away ran Mousie trembling.
A certain Cat often saw them going to and fro, and longed to have them to eat.
I must see my cat before I go to bed," said my host.
The Brazilian Cat It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections, but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any.
The cat (if one may call so fearful a creature by so homely a name) was not more than ten feet from me.
The monstrous cat walked over to one side of the room and coiled itself up under a grating.
You talk about a Brazilian cat to an up-country Indian, and see him get the jumps.
It was simply a very enormous and very well-kept black cat, and it cuddled up and basked in that yellow pool of light exactly as a cat would do.
The cat swayed there for an instant, the head and front paws quite close to me, the hind paws clawing to find a grip upon the edge of the grating.
There were horses in the stable, a catwas curled up on one of the cabin doorsteps, and smoke continued to pour in a dull yellow cloud from the kitchen chimney.
A wildcat enraged by pain looks as he did when he leaped to meet me.
Indeed, I feel like a cat in a strange garret, and hesitated to appear at all.
I waited around the barn until Mamma Cat went up to the house and then I slipped into the barn again, for I knew there must be something inside or she would not have jumped at me that way!
When Fido and Mamma Cat had circled the barn two or three times Fido managed to find the hole and escape to the yard; then Mamma Cat came over to the basket and saw all the dolls.
Mamma Cat went trailing along, arching her back and purring with pride as she rubbed against all the chairs and doors.
Raggedy Ann took two of the kittens and carried them to the house while Mamma Cat carried the other.
Raggedy Ann wanted to give the kittens her bed, but Fido, who was anxious to prove his affection, insisted that Mamma Catand the kittens should have his nice soft basket.
And Mamma Cat found out that Fido was a very good friend, too.
I was afraid something might disturb them," he said, "for Mamma Cat went away about an hour ago.
Illustration] Just as Raggedy Ann started to pick up one of the kittens there was a lot of howling and yelping and Fido came bounding through the hole with Mamma Cat behind him.
He commented needlessly on a cat which prowled along the terrace rail.
He stopped his rapid tirade, chucked a lump of sugar at an interrogative cat which was making the round of the tables, scowled, and suddenly fired at her: "What do you think of me?
Partly by nature and partly because she had learned that thus she could best obtain her wishes, she was gentle as a well-filled cat and delicate as a tulle scarf.
Her sorrow was like sympathy for a mangy alley cat which she could not take home.
I used to dream that I was in that pond, all men hating me with their eyes because I was a witch; and, at times, her black cat used to seem living again, and say over those dreadful words.
Perfectly,' said I, in a maze of wonder at this deep solicitude in a taillesscat who had lost one foot and half an ear in some cruel trap.
What most resembles a cat looking out of a garret window, amid a sheltering bower of jessamine and woodbine?
A cat looking into a garret window under the same circumstances.
As he finished speaking, a large grey cat sprung on the hall floor.
As he did so a blackcat leaped on Mother Crewe's shoulder and stood there, squalling.
Before the men could reach her she changed into a black cat and disappeared in the ground.
It was formerly supposed that the Weasel was untamable; but Buffon, in a supplementary volume, corrects this error, and from a letter of a female correspondent, shows that it may be rendered as familiar as a cat or a lapdog.
Everything is swallowed whole, and so accommodating is its throat that not only an animal as big as a cat is gulped down, but a shin of beef broken asunder serves it but for two morsels.
The Lion, like all animals of the cat kind, does not devour his prey the moment he has seized it.
This opinion is, however, now doubted, on the ground that the tail of the wild Cat is thick and bushy, like that of a fox, while that of the domestic Cat tapers to the point.
The female Cat has generally five or six kittens at a time, which she carries about in her mouth, and hides, when she thinks them in danger.
The Lion also resembles a cat in his mode of stealing after, and watching his prey, a long time before seizing it.
As the Lion belongs to the cat tribe, his eyes are incapable of bearing a strong light; it is therefore generally in the night that he prowls about for prey, and when the sun shines in his face, he becomes confused and almost blinded.
IT was formerly supposed that the common domestic Cat was nothing more than the wildCat of the woods, rendered tame by education.
When a Cat is enraged, its hair stands erect, and its tail swells to an enormous size.
THE PUMA, or American Lion, is smaller than the jaguar, and has a shrill hissing cry, very different from that of other animals of the cat kind.
The path was just as he had left it, perhaps a little more uneven than in the old days; the doves were cooing, and the white catpurred in the doorway just as of yore.
You know Crows eat dead things and offal; and this Crow liked a dead cat for dinner better than a gold crown.
The Cat jumped into the Blackbird's ear, and curled up, and went to sleep: and the Blackbird marched along, beating his drum.
The Cat and the Sparrows Told by TULSI RÁM, Brahman, of Sadabad, Mathura district.
Illustration] The Cat and the Parrot ONCE upon a time, a Cat and a Parrot had joint lease of a certain piece of land, which they tilled together.
The Cat was still hungry, and ate the Parrot, bones and beak and feathers.
One day theCat said to the Parrot, "Come, friend, let us go to the field.
We killed every cat that was found hunting in the park, and we certainly got some that were big and bad.
Dike wrote [to Mr. Forbush] of a cat owned by a family, and well cared for.
Unhappily it is the way of the hunting cat to stalk unseen, and to kill the very birds that are most friendly with man, and most helpful to him in his farming and fruit-growing business.
With him it is a matter of dollars, and cash out of pocket for every hunting cat that he tolerates in his neighborhood.
While this chapter was in the hands of the compositors, the hunting cat and gray rabbit shown in the accompanying illustration were brought in by a keeper.
In such thickly settled communities as our northern states, from the Atlantic coast to the sandhills of Kansas and Nebraska, the domesticcat is probably the greatest four-footed scourge of bird life.
In Malayana there are some jungles so dense, so tangled with lianas and so thorny with Livistonias and rattan that nothing larger than a cat can make way through them.
Thousands of persons who never have seen a hunting cat in action will doubt this statement, but the proof of its truthfulness is only too painfully abundant.
Some catlovers believe that each cat kills on the average not more than ten birds a year; but I have learned of two instances where more than that number were killed in a single day, and another where seven were killed.
When we came up the cat was already amidships, a scarcely discernible shadow at the margin of our lantern's ring.
A cat sat there on the hatch, expressionless and immobile in the gloom.
You wouldn't think a cat could get away with two quarts of water in--" He broke off again and considered me with a sort of weary defiance.
I think one of the reasons why he should not mention a cat is because there did not happen to be a cat aboard at that time.
Now you know a cat will squirm around and grab something when you hold it like that, generally speaking.
The cat went over and began to tear at it, her muscles playing with convulsive shadow-lines under the sagging yellow hide.
