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stuck out his tail, and cried: ‘‘ Mee-oo, mee-oo!
with all his might. But they thought he said:
“* Ma-lo, ma-lo!”1—“ What!” said the bear, who
was hiding behind the beeches with the other beasts,
“here have all we four been getting together all we
could, and this pig-faced cat calls it too little! What
a monstrous cat he must be to have such an appe-
tite!” So they were all four very frightened, and
the bear ran up a tree, and the others hid where they
could. But when the cat saw the boar’s bristles
sticking out from behind the bushes he thought it
was a mouse, and put up his back again and cried:
Stel inp el espyase | AUnein ney Wes mere
frightened than ever. And the boar went into a bush
still further off, and the wolf went behind an oak, and
the bear got down from the tree, and climbed up into
a bigger one, and the hare ran right away.

But the cat remained in the midst of all the good
things and ate away at the bacon, and the little fox
gobbled up the honey, and they ate and ate till they
couldn’t eat any more, and then they both went home
licking their paws.

1 What a little! what a little !