THE CAT
E pity the bird caught in the ruthless claw of the supercilious and smiling, cat, and if the kill were sudden, eveg that stark revelation of relentless law would blight the rapture of a Summer's day. ANP yetif pain and terror neutralised each other in the wild throbbing of that little breast, and then swift dark descended, that were best; and we should choose this method, and no other to slaughter bird or beast. OT so the pretty cat! That epicure turning the morsel of her cruelty on contemplation’s tongue, ecstatically tastes blood, and savours, sip by sip, her powet, with each recapture of her tortured prey! ND are not we birds in the claws of fate, our ultimate doom foretasted and foreknown, while fancy amplifies each undertong of stalking Death, who claims us soon or late, and seldom lets us die swiftly or mercifully? N. F. H. MacLeod
N. F. H.
MacLeod
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 15
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155THE CAT New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 15
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