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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ... proudest of the purring band: --So dignified in all her paces, She seem'd a pupil of the Graces! There never was a finer creature In all the varying whims of Nature! All liked Grimalkin, passing well! Save Mistress Gurton--and, 'tis said, She oft with furious ire would swell, When, through neglect or hunger keen, Puss with a pilfer'd scrap was seen Purring beneath the pent-house shed: For, like some favourites, she was bent On all things, yet with none content; And still, whate'cr her place or diet, She could not pick her bone in quiet. Sometimes, new milk Grimalkin stole, And sometimes--overset the bowl! For over eagerness will prove Ofttimes the bane of what we love; And sometimes, to her neighbour's home Grimalkin like a thief would roam, Teaching poor cats of humbler kind, For high example sways the mind! Sometimes she paced the garden wall, Thick guarded by the shatter'd pane, And, lightly treading with disdain, Fear'd not ambition's certain fall! Old china broke, or scratch'd her dame, And brought domestic friends to shame! And many a time this cat was cursed, Of squalling thieving things the worst! Wish'd dead, and menace'd with a string, For cats of such scant fame deserved to swin. One day Report, for ever busy, Resolved to make Dame Gurton easy; A neighbour came, with solemn look, And thus the dismal tidings broke. Know you that poor Grimalkin died Last night, upon the pent-house side? I heard her for assistance call; I heard her shrill and dying squall! 1 heard her, in reproachful tone, Pour to the stars her feeble groan! Alone I heard her piercing cries--1 With not a friend to close her eyes! Poor puss! I vow it grieves me sore Never to see thy beauties more! Never again to hear thee purr, To stroke thy back of zebra fur; To see thy ...

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