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...en years?” “Rescuing cats from trees,” he said flippantly. “Do you consider me to be a cat?” Without hesitation, “A cat with many claws.” “So,... ...eyes were closed as he traced imaginary lines over her body. She moaned and purred like a cat, not wanting it to end. He kissed her gently and said,... ... Bishop Salvi sat in a chair, while Zlatamir sat behind his desk smiling like a Cheshire cat. “So, you want to continue our conversation from the o... ...word. When they arrived at the huge helicopter, Susan thought it looked like a big, black beetle. Two agents escorted them up the stairs and into th... ...ore mundane things.” “Like what?” Brand asked, loving to tease Nolan. “Talk about your cat, I don’t care,” he said starting to get pissed. “Michae...

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...oshana Glizerin 1 I n a gloomy forest, far, far away, there lived a small beetle. His name was Buzz. Buzz was afraid of the dark. He had a caterp... ...old on, Dana, I’ll get help,” Buzz promised, and flew to see a bombardier beetle. “Mister bombardier beetle, you are very strong. Please help Dana... ...f her cocoon!” “I’d love to, but I’m way too busy. Maybe another time,” the beetle answered, and went straight to sleep. Buzz hurried over to a bee... ...look at the hero. Wolves and bears, owls and eagles all looked at the tiny beetle with great respect. They admired Buzz for his courage. From then ...

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... pigeons from the nest behind the air conditioning unit, every thud of the cat jumping from a table, and she would think that it was Chuck whom she h... ...f one rendering this solicitude, would create one of their own—as a stray cat that hungered for any crumb, a bird singing in their direction or the ... ...rcely sense at all. Nature, including a caterpillar, a southern pine beetle, and a red shouldered stink bug traversed on her body most intimatel... ...r some now for she missed her, the departed. She missed her and the family cat that used to scratch at the screen door and cling to it when it was co... ...so—when there is any chance of it being safely ensconced there. Thus, when Cat jumps onto my lap, it returns me to the sense that I really am substan... ...lowing day and the next; I knock down spider webs from a broom; I feed the cat and empty the litter box into a plastic bag; I even sweep the floor an...

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...ailor who had touched port. “For me?” I became suspicious! I fingered the beetle-shaped oval, unlike any I had seen. An amethyst was set in the cent... ...a lamps, their wicks flaming coldly. Perspiration glowed on our bodies. A cat jumped on our bed and Phaon pushed it away: wind rustled: leaves shook... ...ea carries a few boats, small clouds on the horizon, a series of silver cat’s-paws; and as though through a sheet of green glass the faces of S...

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...ailor who had touched port. “For me?” I became suspicious! I fingered the beetle-shaped oval, unlike any I had seen. An amethyst was set in the cent... ...a lamps, their wicks flaming coldly. Perspiration glowed on our bodies. A cat jumped on our bed and Phaon pushed it away: wind rustled: leaves shook... ...ea carries a few boats, small clouds on the horizon, a series of silver cat’s-paws; and as though through a sheet of green glass the faces of S... ...dow end of the narrow room. A book on my lap, I watched a golden Persian cat steal about, stiffly inde- pendent. Though I can not read Latin I can ... ...en the heart of a squirrel and the heart of a man? Between the heart of a cat and a man? Between the heart of a cow and the heart of a man? Knowing ... ...urns. Interruptions...interruptions... Francesco has adopted a stray cat, from among the dozens that haunt the château. The cat beds under his ...

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...ing Ape societies? Ostracism. Forced to live like an Ocelot. A small, weak cat that is a loner also. Forced to live like a Leopard. Publicly ma... ...team as they skated by him. Then the entire game would change into a game of cat-and-mouse… with the opposing team totally confused as all of the o... ...ial. It would put every businessman and corporation and every capitalist fat cat behind bars for refusing to answer exactly why they sell poorer qu... ...ly important… they would have spent more time on it. Like the story about the cat up the tree. There was the local reporter talking to the fireman.... ...nt of brainwashing by terminology. Brainwashing by association. Call a dog a cat long enough: and all dogs become cats. They sought to string toge... ...o were the Arabs? They were desert insects. Scarabs. Scared Arabs. Scared beetles. Scampering over the sand when frightened. Armored. Black. ... ... Egyptians. As a sacred animal. To denote what? Bringing new generations of beetles emerging from a ball of dung. Rolling a globe over the desert... ...writing. Used as sacred Amulets to denote meanings of sacredness. Battling beetles. Warlike insects hoarding balls of shit. Unsuccessfully tryin... ...before reptile took to the air and shed their heavy armor. Then there is the beetled look of a gorilla, an armored beetle: almost modern in its sick...

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...ed upon by the Great Spirit to protect every liv­ ing thing, even the huge black beetle that scared him. Listening to his grandfather, he wondered ho... ...er at this meeting?" River Song raised one eye brow and smiled like a Cheshire cat. "Ask the Soul Bearer." "Don't be cute, I need some help here. ... ...he Puma, the Eagle, the Hawk, the Sparrow, the Snake, the Fish, the Beaver, the Beetle, and Gray Shadow, the Bear. A soft thumping of a drum starte... ...on. He enjoyed nothing better than a good fight. With his powerful physique and cat-like quickness, Ryan had never lost a fight. Fighting was in his...

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...ike the frogs, others from slime, as the worms, others from donkeys, as the beetles, others from cabbage, as caterpillars, others from fruit, as the... ...nimals. For example, myrrh appears very agreeable to men and intolerable to beetles and bees. Oil also, which is useful to men, destroys wasps and be...

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...d up to her nostrils. She listened to termites munching the fallen trunk, a beetle scrabbling in the crevices. Seen from the corner of her eye, it r... ...htShout listened to leaves crumpling beneath his son's jacket, watched as a beetle scurried away from the red shock of hair fallen about FeatherFly'...

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...hite kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten?s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn?t have had any hand in the mischief....

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...lt entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, consider... ...ght, Dinah, you know you ought!’ she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat, and speak ing in as cross a voice as she could manage—and then she ... ... to the ticket office, even if she doesn’t know her alphabet!’ There was a Beetle sitting next to the Goat (it was a very queer carriage full of pas... ... back from here as luggage!’ Alice couldn’t see who was sitting beyond the Beetle, but a hoarse voice spoke next. ‘Change engines—’ it said, and wa...

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...after a novel, by Charles Kingsley.) The book is a collection of linked short stories, with some information about the eponymous Stalky's later life. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville. The stories have elements of the macabre (dead cats), bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making ...

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... 64 WITH THE SEA ............................................................................................................................. 64 THE CAT THAT WALKED........................................................................................................... 75 BY HIMSELF ...........................................................................................

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...................................................................... 64 THE CAT THAT WALKED............................................................... ... their teas had gone. At last they were so hun- gry that they ate rats and beetles and rock-rab- bits, the Leopard and the Ethiopian, and then they ha... ...ingo, make him SO!’ Up jumped Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—and said, ‘What, that cat-rabbit?’ Off ran Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—always hungry, grinning like a ... ...ld catch. When he could not catch deer or mon- keys he would eat frogs and beetles; and when he could not catch frogs and beetles he went to his Mothe... ...e able to do that; but if you can’t read, ask some one to show it you. THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF H EAR AND ATTEND and listen; for this be fell an... ...ods by their wild lones. But the wild- est of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. Of course the ... ...and said, ‘I will go up and see and look, and say; for I think it is good. Cat, come with me.’ ‘Nenni!’ said the Cat. ‘I am the Cat who walks by himse...

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...s of delight. And for the fifth summer in succession, Stalky, McT urk, and Beetle (this was before they reached the dignity of a study) had built like... ... He removed the pipes, swept up all loose match-ends, and departed to warn Beetle and McT urk. But it was characteristic of the boy that he did not ap... ... surprised when the boy meekly, as he knew how, begged to propose himself, Beetle, and McT urk as candidates; con- fessed to a long-smothered interest... ...soul had been galled by chance-heard remarks from the three, and specially Beetle. So he was gracious to that repentant sinner, and entered the three ... ...ered the three names in his book. Then, and not till then, did Stalky seek Beetle and McT urk in their house form-room. They were stowing away books ... ...ettin’ too beastly independent. Hi! There’s a bunny. No, it ain’t. It’s a cat, by Jove! You plug first.” T wenty minutes later a boy with a straw hat... ...lane, and from under a pile of stones drew forth the new-slain corpse of a cat. Then did Beetle see the inner meaning of what had gone before, and lif... ...“Bit whiff! What a coarse brute you are!” said McTurk. “Can’t a poor pussy-cat get under King’s dormitory floor to Stalky & Co die without your pursu... ...ure. “Oh, they won’t worry about that when they find her,” said Stalky. “A cat may look at a king.” McT urk rolled down the bank at his own jest. “Pus...

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...eded breath to punctuate the punches with. She resur rected nothing but the cat. “I never did see the beat of that boy!” She went to the open door an... ... been a swimming. But I forgive ye, Tom. I reckon you’re a kind of a singed cat, as the saying is — better’n you look. This time.” She was half sor... ...ect, and she was nodding over her knit ting — for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap. Her spectacles were propped up on her ... ... he bethought him of a treasure he had and got it out. It was a large black beetle with formi dable jaws — a “pinchbug,” he called it. It was in a p... ...nchbug,” he called it. It was in a percus sion cap box. The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger. A natural fillip followed, the ... ...sle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy’s mouth. The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over. Tom eyed... ... of his reach. Other people uninter ested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they eyed it too. Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling ... ...softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change. He spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged. He surveyed the prize; walke... ...ody, Sid. (Groan.) Tell ‘em so, Sid. And Sid, you give my window sash and my cat with one eye to that new girl that’s come to town, and tell her —” Bu...

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... the learned and ingenuous Montaigne says, like himself, freely, “ When my Cat and I entertain each other with mutual apish tricks, as play ing with ... ...ual apish tricks, as play ing with a garter, who knows but that I make my Cat more sport than she makes me? Shall I conclude her to be simple, that h... ...in of the earth; as namely, the Fichat, the Fulimart, the Ferret, the Pole cat, the Mouldwarp, and the like creatures that live upon the face, and wit... ...any kind of fly, as the ant fly, the flesh fly, or wall fly; or the dor or beetle which you may find under cow dung; or a bob which you will find in t... ...ung; or a bob which you will find in the same place, and in time will be a beetle; it is a short white worm, like to and bigger than a gentle; or a co... ...ms; in May, June, and July, he will bite at any fly, or at cherries, or at beetles with their legs and wings cut off, or at any kind of snail, or at t... ...der weather, nearer the bottom; and if you fish for him on the top, with a beetle, or any fly, then be sure to let your line be very long, and to keep... ..., who replied, “ It was as improbable as to have the mouse scratch out the cat’s eyes”. But he did not consider, that there be Fish ing frogs, which ... ... some other counties, called a grub; and is bred of the spawn or eggs of a beetle, which she leaves in holes that she digs in the ground under cow or ...

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...our nose; when you’re sick of staring at the landscape you can watch a fat beetle crawling on a blade of grass, or an ant fussing about. It’s really m... ...g for an answer he went on: ‘What strikes me most forcibly in the ants and beetles and other worthy insects is their astounding seriousness. They run ... ... suddenly on him; he almost shuddered, and his heart stood still; a drowsy beetle fell off a twig and dropped with a thud on the path; Bersenyev utter... ...g her, but Zoya only smiled slyly and drew herself together, like a little cat. At last he snatched her fingers, and squeezed them so tightly that she... ...l’s cry with great correctness. Spurred on by this, he tried mewing like a cat; but this did not go off so well; and after one more quail-call, he loo...

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...hese ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the dust. She was filled with repulsion. They turned off ... ...ut him, that made him attractive. ‘I’m not afwaid of anything except black-beetles,’ said the Pussum, looking up suddenly and staring with her black e... ...ence. ‘I’m not,’ she protested. ‘I’m not afraid of other things. But black-beetles—ugh!’ she shuddered convulsively, as if the very thought were too m... ... a man who has been drinking, ‘that you are afraid of the sight of a black-beetle, or you are afraid of a black-beetle biting you, or doing you some h... ...lliday. ‘I don’t know,’ replied Gerald, looking round the table. ‘Do black-beetles bite? But that isn’t the point. Are you afraid of their biting, or ... ...on, man—it’s just what she wants.’ ‘Oh!’ squealed Halliday. ‘He’s going to cat, Maxim,’ said the Pussum warningly. The suave young Russian rose and to... ...nted on Gerald’s eyes. ‘Why do they call you Pussum, because you’re like a cat?’ he asked her. ‘I expect so,’ she said. The smile grew more intense on... ... The first to run across the lawn was the little Italian, small and like a cat, her white legs twinkling as she went, ducking slightly her head, that ... ... to read the terms of the contract, before we sign,’ he said. A young grey cat that had been sleeping on the sofa jumped down and stretched, rising on...

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... that two days in the week there was Old T estament, two days New, one day Cat- echism, one day Prayer-book. Only half an hour was thus appropriated, ... ...espect yourself and them you come of mair than to show yourself to a blind beetle in an unbecoming way. ’Tis well that there’s one in the house that k... ...d have been so like an old schoolmistress. Miss Dormer always did, the old cat! where I went to school,’ said Constance. ‘We did hate it so! She looke... ..., but Gillian replied that mamma always liked to have all together for the Cat- echism, and that she could not venture to leave Dolores with- out spec... ...s are found—those are the sort of things; putting that very life-like wild cat chauffe-pied with glaring eyes in Dolly’s bed. I believe he does such t... ...understand her persistent repulse of Mysie.’ ‘Nor of you, the nasty little cat!’ said Aunt Jane, with a little fierce shake of the head. ‘I do underst... ... e coloured and monumental, and with the true Sphynx head, surrounded with beetles, lizards, and other mystic creatures (very chocolate-coloured). And...

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...olden shield, I stole from court With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived, Cat-footed through the town and half in dread To hear my father’s clamour a... ... Y et hangs his portrait in my father’s hall (The gaunt old Baron with his beetle brow Sun-shaded in the heat of dusty fights) As he bestrode my Grand... ...all her autumn tresses falsely brown, Shot sidelong daggers at us, a tiger-cat In act to spring. At last a solemn grace Concluded, an...