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To: Nancy W who wrote (278)	2/10/2000 1:21:00 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 2931

"Humby report sir, everything is in order. Only the cat has got into mischief and eaten up your canary. 'What?' thundered the lieutenant. 'Humbly report, sir, it was like this: I knew that cats hat canaries and like to insult them. And so I thought I'd introduce them to each other, and if the brute tried anything on I'd flay her so that she'd remember to her dying day how to behave towards canaries, because I'm very fond of animals. In the house where I live there's a hat-maker and he trained his cat so well that after eating up three of his canaries she didn't eat any more - a canary could sit on her if it liked. And I wanted to try that out too and so I took the canary out of its cage and let her smell it, and she, the little monkey, bit its head off before I realized it. I really never expected such caddishness from her. If it had been a sparrow, sir, I wouldn't have said anything, but a lovely canary like that from the Harz. And how greedily she gobbled it up, feathers and all, and at the same time purred out of sheer joy. They say cats have no musical education and can't stand it when a canary sings, because the brutes don't understand it. I swore at the cat, but I swear to God that I didn't do anything to her and waited for you to come to decide what's to be done with her, the scabby beast." page 172, the Good Soldier Svek aj