1The beast looked at us and gave so hopeless a miau that I shuddered.
2Because it can say only one single word, and that a noise such as a cat makes when it says "miau."
3Toward midnight he was about to poke his fire, and as he was blowing it, something cried suddenly from one cornier, Au, miau!
4Plastered flat against the tree trunk, some nine feet above the ground, he miaued dolefully.
5The breakfast over, the guests bow-wowed and miaued their thanks, and were dismissed to their morning nap.
6Or was it Mr. Rinck's cat miauing?
7Here and there among taciturn felines of larger growth little spike-tail kits were rolling, cuffing, frolicking and miauing.
8"Miau, miau, miau," was the linked shrillness, long drawn out, of the feline reply.
9"Ps-s-s-s. ps-s-s-s, miau; ps-s-s-s-s-s-s-s," replied the other, in a voice like fat in the fire.
10At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there shrieked suddenly in one corner, Miau, miau!