When, by her quadrupedal mode, she shows

Her four feet in a yard.

To try the martial simile once more:

She apes the military drummer-man,

When, at appropriate hours of day and night,

She makes her ratty plan.

She is a lawyer to the hapless rat,

Who strives in vain to fly her fee-line paws,

Evading once, but to be caught again

In her redeeming claws.