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But Puss on a sudden deserted her station,

Disliking (no wonder) the strange operation,

And ran round the room without means of escaping;

While Pug, still determined to give her a scraping,

Pursued, and, regardless of struggle or prayer,

Fast bound her, at last, to the back of a chair.

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