StoryTitle("caps", "The Robber Kitten") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(83, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A kitten once to its mother said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I'll never more be good,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I'll go and be a robber bold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And live in a dreary wood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Wood, wood, wood,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And live in a dreary wood.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So off he went to a dreary wood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And there he met a cock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And blew his head with a pistol off, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which gave him an awful shock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Shock, shock, shock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which gave him an awful shock.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon after that he met a cat. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Now give to me your purse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or I'll shoot you through and stab you, too, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And kill you—which is worse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Worse, worse, worse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And kill you—which is worse.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At last he met a robber dog ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And they sat down to drink; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dog did joke and laugh and sing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which made the kitten wink, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Wink, wink, wink,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which made the kitten wink. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(84, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At last they quarreled, then they fought ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Beneath the greenwood tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And puss was felled with an awful club ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Most terrible to see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "See, see, see,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Most terrible to see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When puss got up his eye was cut ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And swelled, and black and blue;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Moreover all his bones were sore, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which made this kitten mew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Mew, mew, mew.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which made this kitten mew.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So up he got and rubbed his head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And went home very sad.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O mother dear, behold me here; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll never more be bad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Bad, bad, bad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll nevermore be bad.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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