The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keep…

Hector Hugh Munro
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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside. ✨ The Square Egg. Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: The Achievement of the Cat, 1924.
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