The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-08-17
Sayings About Cats.

For ''lving a cat or dog life" the French
say, ITO live like cats and dogs" and this
leads us to observe that many OF the say
ings which are current in one language
appear in others more or less modified.
Thus, we say "to buy pig in poke; !"
but i'll France, Flanders and elsewhere they
say "to buy cat in bag" A scalded
cat breads cold water, lust as much as a
burnt child breads the fire; and though q
scaldcd cut will not 60 back to the kitchen,
the Spanish idea ls good, "One eye Oh the
pot, and the other On the cat" The Italian
means cat when he is earnest, docs not
mean cat when he is III jest, and plays the
dead cat when he dissimulatcs. He calls
the cat when he speaks plainly; he sets
about skinning the cat, when he undertakes
hard task; and when he sees no one he
finds neither cut nor dog. That evildocrs
are caught ut last, he shows by saying the
cat goes so often to the bacon that she leaves
her claws there. Hc goes to see the cat
drowndcd 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 cut would like bell,
the cat OF Messina scra tch cd out it's own
eyes in order not to sec the rats. The Span
lard, like the Italian, plays the cat when he
dissimulatcs, but it is not a dead one The
Spaniard says the cut would be good
friend ii he did not scratch. and lie thinks
a cat which news is not Il good mouser.
An Italian says one had better be the head
OF cat than the tail of a lion; awary 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 Il mouse that no
cat ls 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 NICE are
on good terms the provisions suffer; the
Turk tells us that two cats Gun hold their
own against one lion. Another Turkish
saying is, 1t is fast day to-day, as the cat
sad when IL could not get at the liver The
Engllshman fancics that some people have
as many lives as Il cat--that a cat, in fact,
has nine lives; yet he holds that care will
Kill Il cut, and that May kittens should be
drowned. lie Is scarcely alone in thinking
that the more you stroke a cats back the
higher she raises her tail-in other words.
that flattcry feeds vanity. He lets the cat
out OF the bag but so do others. and they
all agree that it is in the nature of q cat
always to fall on its feet. Only he talks of
turning cat in pan, and of raining cats and
dogs, or sees folk dane like q cat on not
bricks. The Spanlard says, Has the cat
kittencdY when he sees place full of
lights; and he asks. Who has TO take the
cat out of the watcr2 when something un.
pleasant has to be done. That anyone
watches as acaL mouse, is French as much
as English. The French also say, she is rs
dainty as cat; it is nothing to whip a cat
for; their singers have cat IN their throat
when the throat is not clear; and the
phrase "cat music" is not unknown. If
one has scratched face, he has been play
ing with the cats; and all impossibility is
mouse's nest i'll cats car. That people
should sometimes 20 like cat over hot
Goals is Ineligible enough.