And I would kill Bow-Wow and all the dogs that came near my house."
III
MEW-MEW FALLS ASLEEP
Mew-Mew would think of such a life till she grew quite glad.
She would begin to purr, and so sing herself off to sleep.
"Did ever any one see such a cat?" Bow-Wow said, when Mew-Mew acted in this way.
"She sings as if she were out of her wits.
I have seen much in my life" (he was quite young), "but I have never seen so silly a cat as Mew-Mew is."
Then he would go to Mew-Mew and give her a blow on the side of her head to wake her up.