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But what do you think the nose did one day? oh! what do you 

 think it did? You never could guess, and so I must tell you. 



The old cat had been asleep beside the kitchen fire. She had had 

 a long, long nap, — the sleepy old cat, — and when she woke up she 

 felt that she needed a long, long stretch before she was quite herself 

 again. jSTow, the way in which the old cat stretched herself was 

 this: she put her four feet close together, and humped her back 

 just as high as she could possibly hump it; then she stretched 



