Purring When You're Pleased. Purring When You're Pleased. Parables From Nature By Margaret Gatty.
Cats generally have.
Now this was what the mother cat called keeping up one's dignity and self-respect, so it can easily be imagined how angry she used to get with the other child. I am ashamed to see you make yourself so cheap, by showing gratitude for every trifle. It keeps up one's friends' interest when they are not too sure that one is pleased. But it was all in vain. And the temptations were endless.