It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr. "If ...they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,' or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, ...as usual, a preponderance of children's toys,--dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She does the work about the house As well as most, but like a mouse:... Happy enough to chat and play With birds and rabbits and such as they, So long as men-folk keep away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »