Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 445
Once upon a time a cat and a rat lived together in an old brick oven that was no more used. One day the cat was spinning, and the rat, to plague her, bit off her thread. The cat looked very cross at the rat and said in a loud voice, If you bite off my thread again I 11 hide away your small baby… … mf■»■/ and bit it off. Pussyquick as a flash andrat began to cry andbring back my dearcat said: I will, ifand get me some milk. So away he went, trit-a-tee trot,The faster he went the further he got, and said, Cow, please give me milk: I willgive Puss the milk ; and Puss will give me mydear little…
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