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Oswald Barron Quotes

Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

Oswald Barron
Cat, Belief, Mice
Oswald Barron (1924). “Day in and Day Out”

Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.

Oswald Barron
Wall, Cat, House

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