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A story writer of our sort	B
Historifies in short	B
Of one that may be reckon'd	C
A Rodilard the Second	C
The Alexander of the cats	D
The Attila the scourge of rats	D
Whose fierce and whisker'd head	E
Among the latter spread	E
A league around its dread	E
Who seem'd indeed determined	C
The world should be unvermined	C
The planks with props more false than slim	F
The tempting heaps of poison'd meal	G
The traps of wire and traps of steel	G
Were only play compared with him	F
At length so sadly were they scared	C
The rats and mice no longer dared	C
To show their thievish faces	H
Outside their hiding places	H
Thus shunning all pursuit whereat	C
Our crafty General Cat	C
Contrived to hang himself as dead	C
Beside the wall with downward head	C
Resisting gravitation's laws	I
By clinging with his hinder claws	I
To some small bit of string	J
The rats esteem'd the thing	J
A judgment for some naughty deed	C
Some thievish snatch	K
Or ugly scratch	K
And thought their foe had got his meed	C
By being hung indeed	C
With hope elated all	L
Of laughing at his funeral	M
They thrust their noses out in air	N
And now to show their heads they dare	N
Now dodging back now venturing more	O
At last upon the larder's store	O
They fall to filching as of yore	O
A scanty feast enjoy'd these shallows	I
Down dropp'd the hung one from his gallows	I
And of the hindmost caught	C
'Some other tricks to me are known '	-
Said he while tearing bone from bone	P
'By long experience taught	C
The point is settled free from doubt	C
That from your holes you shall come out '	-
His threat as good as prophecy	I
Was proved by Mr Mildandsly	M
For putting on a mealy robe	Q
He squatted in an open tub	R
And held his purring and his breath	S
Out came the vermin to their death	S
On this occasion one old stager	T
A rat as grey as any badger	T
Who had in battle lost his tail	M
Abstained from smelling at the meal	M
And cried far off 'Ah General Cat	C
I much suspect a heap like that	C
Your meal is not the thing perhaps	I
For one who knows somewhat of traps	I
Should you a sack of meal become	U
I'd let you be and stay at home '	-
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Well said I think and prudently	M
By one who knew distrust to be	M
The parent of security	M

Jean De La Fontaine

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