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The Auld Seceder Cat
But soon a wonder came to light,
That showed the rogues they lied:
The man recover'd of the bite,
The dog it was that died.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
THE AULD SECEDER CAT
There was a Presbyterian cat
Went forth to catch her prey;
She brought a mouse iritill the house,
Upon the Sabbath day.
The minister, offended
With such an act profane,
Laid down his book, the cat he took,
And bound her with a chain.
Thou vile malicious creature,
Thou murderer, said he,
Oh do you think to bring to Hell
My holy wife and me?
But be thou well assured,
That blood for blood shall pay,
For taking of the mouse's life
Upon the Sabbath Day.
Then he took doun his Bible,
And fervently he prayed,
That the great sin the cat had done
Might not on him be laid.
Then forth to exe-cu-ti-on,
Poor Baudrons she was drawn,
And on a tree they hanged her hie,
And then they sung a psalm.
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