That instant with Puss tumbled into the room.

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Grimed over with soot, they kick’d up such a rout,

And caper’d the sick man’s apartment about,

And chatter’d and squall’d in a manner so hideous,

Like young imps of darkness, that, not to be tedious,

The sufferer forgot both his gout and his prayers,

And scamper’d, pursued by these phantoms, down stairs!