GRIMALKIN THE CAT 
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him. What he lacked in strength and endurance 
must be compensated for by cunning. He crept 
from his hiding-place, and stole silently down the 
path to his hunting grounds. 
So passes Grimalkin from this tale, through the 
grey trees, into the depths of the mysterious woods, 
where the race is only to the swift and the battle to 
the strong, and about which man can know nothing 
certainly. 
