1 The beast looked at us and gave so hopeless a miau that I shuddered.
2 Because it can say only one single word, and that a noise such as a cat makes when it says " miau . "
3 Toward midnight he was about to poke his fire, and as he was blowing it, something cried suddenly from one cornier, Au, miau !
4 Plastered flat against the tree trunk, some nine feet above the ground, he miaued dolefully.
5 The breakfast over, the guests bow-wowed and miaued their thanks, and were dismissed to their morning nap.
6 Or was it Mr. Rinck's cat miauing ?
7 Here 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.
10 At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there shrieked suddenly in one corner, Miau , miau!
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