Pussy and Doggy Tales

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Nesbit Edith. Pussy and Doggy Tales

Too Clever by Half

The White Persian

A Powerful Friend

A Silly Question

The Selfish Pussy

Meddlesome Pussy

Nine Lives

Doggy Tales

Tinker

Rats!

The Tables Turned

A Noble Dog

The Dyer's Dog

The Vain Setter

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I WAS a handsome, discreet, middle-aged, respectable, responsible, domesticated tabby cat. I was humble. I knew my place, and kept it. My place was the place nearest the fire in winter, or close to the sunny window in summer. There was nothing to trouble me – not so much as a fly in the cream, or an error in the leaving of the cat's meat, until some thoughtless person gave my master the white Persian cat.

She was very beautiful in her soft, foolish, namby-pamby, blue-eyed way. Of course, she did not understand English, and when they called "Puss, puss," she only ran under the sofa, for she thought they were teasing her. She was mistress only of two languages – Persian and cat-talk.

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Of course, I understood what he said, but she hadn't yet picked up a word of English; and if the master had begun to learn Persian, I don't suppose he had got much beyond the alphabet.

The Persian's mew was rather feebler that day, because she had a cold.

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