The cat upon the moonlit shed below responded “N‑a‑ow‑w‑w!”
Free Press Flashes, 1883.
Dunraven.
(A November Night’s Vision, after reading Edgar Poe and the Earl of Dunraven’s Address on “Fair Trade,” delivered by him, as President of the National Fair Trade League, at Sheffield, on November 12th, 1884.)
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary
Over many a dry and tedious tome of economic lore,
Whilst I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a snapping
As of some small terrier yapping, yapping at my study-door,
’Tis old Ponto there, I muttered, yapping at my study-door,—