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 Cat’s Sleep.Catacomb. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cats.
 
Mistress Tofts, the singer, left legacies at death to twenty cats.   1
       
“Not Niobê mourned more for fourteen brats,
Nor Mistress Tofts, to leave her twenty cats.”
       
Peter Pindar: Old Simon.
 


 Cat’s Sleep.Catacomb. 

 
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