NOWmany Lives has the Cat got?

NONE!

Is it true then, as they said,

That poor old Puss is dead,

So many lives as she’d got?

ES, the song has all been said,

And poor old Puss is dead,

Let it never be forgot;

Although not One,Two,Three,but
Nine Lives she had got.

In the original book, the illustrations appeared on facing pages: