<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345656" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cat Parody on Poe's</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The other night while we lay musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day,<br>Suddenly we heard a rattling, as of serious hosts a-battling, as they mingled in the fray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What is that?' we cried, upstarting, and into the darkness darting, slap! we ran against the door.<br>'Oh , 'tis nothing,' Edward grumbled, as o'er a huge armchair we stumbled, ''tis a bug and nothing more.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then said we, our anger rising (for we thought it so surprising that a bug should thus offend)—<br>'Do you think a small insect, sir, thus would all the air infect, sir? No, 'tis not a bug, my friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, becoming sorely frightened, round our waist our pants we tightened, and put on our coat and hat—<br>When into the darkness peering, we saw with trembling and much fearing, the glaring eyes of Thomas Cat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With astonishment and wonder we gazed upon this son of thunder, as he sat upon the floor—<br>When resolution taking, and a rapid movement making, lo, we opened wide the door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, clear out, we hoarsely shouted, as o'er head our boot was flouted. 'Take your presence from my floor.'<br>Then with air and mien majestic, this dear creature called domestic, made his exit through the door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Made his exit without growling, neither was his voice howling, not a single word he said.<br>And with feelings much elated, to escape a doom so fated, we went back to bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345656" data-title="Cat Parody on Poe's de Anonymous Americas" data-description="The other night while we lay musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day, Suddenly we heard a rattling, as of serious hosts a-battling, as they mingled in the fray. 'What is that?' we cried, upstarting, and into the darkness ..."></div> </div> </div>

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