Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
sayinss About Cats.

For ''living cat or dog life" the Frencl
say, TO live like cats and dogs and thil
leads us to observe that many of the saw.
ings which are current in one language
appear in others more or less modified
Thus, we say ''to buy pig in a poke;
but in France, Flanders and elsewhere they
say ito buy cat in bag" A scalded
Cat breads cold water, Just IS much as q
burnt child breads the fire; and though q
scalded cat will not go back to the kitchen,
the Spanish idea IS good, Zone eye on the
Dot, and the other on the cat" The italian
means cat when he is earnest, does not
mean Cat when ne is in jest, and plays the
dead Cat when he dissimulates. he calls
the cat when he speaks plainly; he sets
about skinning the cat, when he undertakes
q hard task and when he sees no one he
finds neither cat nor dog. That evildoers
are caught at last, he shows by saying the
cat goes so often to the bacon that she leaves
her claws there. He goes to see the cat
drownded when he lets himself be imposed
on, and he cheats another when he gets
him to go and see his fish along with the
cat. Though every cat would like bell,
the cat of Messina scra tch ed out its own
eyes in order not to see the rats. The Span
lard, like the Italian, plays the cat when he
dissimulates, but it is not dead one The
Spaniard says the cat would be good
friend if he dld not scratch. and he thinks
cat which news is not a good mouser.
An Italian saws one had better be the head
of cat than the tail of lion; wary Ger
man goes like cat round hot broth, and
believes it too late to drive the cat away
when the cheese is eaten. Many believe
that good cat often loses mouse, that no
cat is too small TO scratch, and that you
cannot keep away the cat when it has
tasted cream The Russian thinks that
play for cats means tears for the mice; the
Arab says that when the cats and mice are
on good terms the provisions suffer; the
Turk tells us that two cats can hold their
own against one hon. Another Turkish
saying is, 1t is fast day to-day, as the cat
said when it could not get at the liver. The
fancies that some people have
as many lives as cat-that q cat, iH fact,
has nine lives; yet he holds that care will
kill cat, and that May kittens should be
drowned. He Is scarcely alone in thinking
that the more you stroke cats back the |
higher she raises her tail-in other words, |
that fattery feeds vanity. He lets the cat |
put Of the bag; but 50 do others. and they
ali agree that it is in the nature of cat |
always to fall on its feet. Only he talks of |
turning cat in pan, and of raining cats and
logs, or sees folk dane like a cat on not |
bricks. The Spanlard says, Has the cat |
when he sees place full of |
lights; and he asks. Who has to take the |
AT out Of the waterl when something un-
pleasant has to be done. That anyone
watches as acal a mouse, Is French as much |
Il English. The French also say, she is as !
iainty as cat; 1t is nothing to whip cat |
or; their singers have cat In their throat !
when the throat is not clear; and the |
phrase ''cat music" is not unknown. If !
,ne has scratched face, he has been play |
ng with the cats; and an impossibility is |
/ mouse's nest in a cats ear. That people |
'hould sometimes go like cat over hot
,oals is Ineligible enough.