Isn’t granted us every day.

(Enter the master—“Out of that!

Scamper! off with you! s-s-s-scat!”)

Oh, the wearisome life of a cat!

Mew, mew, meou, ow!

I think it’s curious, anyhow.

Where people can come and go so free,

Why, and I wonder, shouldn’t we?

What’s the reason these two-legged fry

Are any better than you and I?