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"I've a very great longing for a sweet juicy robin; what do you say to catching one or two, you old moon-gazer?"
Whitey gave Mr. Twinkletoes Black a playful chuck under the chin, skipped gleefully across the moonlit roof and back, and sat down sociably by him, before that leisurely pussy turned his head to look scornfully at the youthful -- I almost said "speaker," but as all of their conversation is in cat language perhaps "mewer" would be more exact.