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"And, Cat, that magnificent pout of your chest
Just shows all the sawdust that's in it!
I must teach you your place as a little doorstop——
At least for the half of a minute!"

At first when Ted-Ted came near, the Cat ran away. He had never seen him before, and he thought Ted-Ted must be a man who was very little. He wasn't used to children, anyway, and seeing such a very little man reaching out such a very little hand somehow scared him.

But pretty soon he got used to it. Ted-Ted poured cream from the brown cow's mouth into a saucer. Then the Cat settled down and