New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-08
Sayings About Cats.

For j" living cat or dog ife'' the
French say To love like cats and
dogs;'' and this leads US to observe that
many of the sayings which are current
or less modified. fhus, We saw to bqy
a pig in a poke;" but in France, Fland-
ers and: elsewhere they say g to buy a
cat in bag
A scalded cat breads cold water Just
as much as burnt child breads the
fire; and though scalded cat does not
90 back to the kitchen, the Spanish idea
is good. !" One eye on the pot and the
other on the cat" The Italian means
cat when he is in earnest, does not mean
cat when he 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 under
takes a hard task; and when he sees
no one he finds neither cat nor dog.
That evil-doers 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 SEC the cat drowned
when he lets h:asclf be imposed on,
and he cheats another when he gets
him to 90 and see him fish along with
the cat. Though every cat would like
a bell, the cat of Messina scratched out
it's own eyes in order not to see the rats.
The Spaniard, 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 did not
scratch, and he thinks cat which
news is not a good mouscr. An Ital-
ian says one had better be the head
wary German 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 a 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 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 lion. Another
Turkish saying is, it is fast day to-day,
as the cat said when it could not get
the liver.
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people have as many lives as a cat
that a cat in fact has nine lives yet he
holds that care will kill cat and that
May kittins should be drowned. lie is
scarcely alone in thinking that the more
you stroke cats back Che higher she
raises her tail-in other words that
flattery feeds vanity. He lets the cat
out of the bag; but 50 do others, and
they all agree that it is the nature of
the cat always to fall on it's feet. Only
he talks of turning cat in pan, and o.
raining cats and dogs, or sees folks
dance like cat on hot bricks.
The Spaniard says, Has the cat kit
tened? when he SEES place full of
lights; and he asks, Who has to take
the cat out Of the water? when some
thing unpleasant has to be done. That
anyone watches as Il cat mouse, is
French as much as English. The French
also say, She is as dainty as cat. 1t
is nothing to whip a cat for; their sing
ers have a cat in the throat when tho
throat is not clear; and the phrase "cat
music'' is not unknown. If one haa a
scratched face he has been playing with
cats; and IN impossibility is mouso's
nest in cats ear. Thatpcoplc should
sometimes go like q cat over hot coals
is Ineligible cnough.-LonooW Queen.