Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 95
Among the logs where the old mill stood,Into every kind of nook;Vol. XXL—83. 657 And, one by one, they gave up the-quest— Bobbie and Jack and Fred:We never could find that turkeys nest, If we searched a month, they said. The fields were wide and the hills were steep And the babys years were few,And… … THE CAT IN ANCIENT TIMES. The cat was so very highly regarded in England atone time, both as a rat- and mouse-catcher and as anornament to society, that we find the following law passedby one of the princes of Wales: If any one steal or kill a Cat that guards the Princes Granary, heis to forfeit a…
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