A cat that ambush'd for some house-birds lay,
Swung itself, baglike, from a peg one day.
'Twas seen by a sagacious shrewd-tongued cock,
Which shrilly thus began the cat to mock;
"Full many bags I've noticed heretofore;
But none the grinders of a live cat bore."
Source: Davies: Fables of Babrius = Babrius 17
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