"that's what's the matter with him. Just hear him snore! He'll go off in a fit of apoplexy one of these days! I wish he would!"
"The barn-cat said she did her best; that she knew the rats and mice did take advantage of her absence, but that she was going to train the gray kitten to watch while she was away."
"We'll fix that gray kitten," snarled the old rat, bringing his long yellow teeth together in a very unpleasant manner.
"After that they had a long talk about how they could bring it about to get that child Nancy here that had fed the sparrow and the gray kitten. Feeding the kitten, indeed! as if there were not cats enough around already! When I came away they were talking about having the sparrow entice her here some way or other."
"Why didn't you stay and hear it out?"
