If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
I wonder if I brought my Silly-cat in_could you tell me what she__ thinking?___ can tell you what she__ thinking right now, no touching necessary,_ I drawled. __he__ thinking if she were three times her size, she would eat you._ _Every cat that was awake when I__ smoothed its fur with a bare hand thought that. Every cat I touched that was asleep dreamed that.
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I wonder if I brought my Silly-cat in_could you tell me what she__ thinking?___ can tell you what she__ thinking right now, no touching necessary,_ I drawled. __he__ thinking if she were three times her size, she would eat you._ _Every cat that was awake when I__ smoothed its fur with a bare hand thought that. Every cat I touched that was asleep dreamed that.
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