![]() ![]() The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never wavered. But he waited with the inconceivable patience and persistency of his race besides, he was certain. For days the weather had been very bitter, and all the feebler wild things which were his prey by inheritance, the born serfs to his family, had kept, for the most part, in their burrows and nests, and the Cat's long hunt had availed him nothing. The Cat was very hungry-almost famished, in fact. He was quite free except for his own desires, which tyrannized over him when unsatisfied as now. Nowhere in the world was any voice calling him on no hearth was there a waiting dish. Then, too, he was under no constraint of human will, for he was living alone that winter. It was night-but that made no difference-all times were as one to the Cat when he was in wait for prey. He sat crouched, ready for the death-spring, as he had sat for hours. ![]() The snow was falling, and the Cat's fur was stiffly pointed with it, but he was imperturbable. ![]()
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