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THE CLEVER CAT
into the air, the cat seated on his back, with his paws tightly clasping the bird’s neck.
‘You had better shut your eyes or you may get giddy,’ said the bird; and the cat, who had never before been off the ground except to climb a tree, did as she was bid.
I GO TO SEEK MY FORTUNE ALONE
All that day and all that night they flew, and in the morning they saw the Jew’s palace lying beneath them.
‘Dear me,’ said the cat, opening her eyes for the first time, ‘that looks to me very like a rat city down there, let us go down to it; they may be able to help
