"Take them away!" commanded the Queen, with a wave of her tail. "And keep tabs on them until wanted."
"You'll be sorry for this!" honked Pajuka. "I'm very bad for cats. If you eat me I'll give you fits."
"Hush!" hissed her Highness haughtily. "You are now the dinner and the dinner is not supposed to converse."
"Come along, dinner!" said the guard gruffly, and dragging Pajuka by the wing and Snip by the arm, he marched them sternly away, while all the inhabitants of Catty Corners howled with derision and delight.
