THE CAT- 



The Freebooter 



Cats I scorn, who, sleek and fat, 

 Shiver at a Norway rat. 

 Rough and hardy, bold and free, 

 Be the cat that's made for me ; 

 He whose nervous paw can take 

 My lady's lapdog by the neck; 

 With furious hiss attack the hen, 

 And snatch a chicken from the pen. 



Dr. Erasmus Darwin. 



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