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Our friends and all about them

By Edith Bland [i.e. E. Nesbit]. Illustrated by Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Fanny Moody and W. Gilbert Foster

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The Chase.

It's very wrong, we know,
To chase a pussy so,
But oh! it is a merry thing
To see that pussy go!
She is the favourite cat,
Well, dear me, what of that?
It ought to do the favourite good:
She's much too round and fat.
Hi, hi, you pussy, fly!
The other dogs and I
Will get you into training, now,
Or know the reason why!
Hark, forward! hi, away!
Why she's got out of reach in the hay;
Come out, come out, you silly puss:
Don't you know it was only play?