![]() ![]() "Do not thus afflict yourself, my good master you have only to give me a bag, and get a pair of boots made for me, that I may scamper thro' the dirt and the brambles, and you shall see that you have not so bad a portion of me as you imagine." The Cat, who heard all this, but made as if he did not, said to him with a grave and serious air: "My brothers," said he, "may get their living handsomely enough, by joining their stocks together but for my part, when I have eaten up my Cat, and made me a muff of his skin, I must die with hunger." The poor young fellow was quite comfortless at having so poor a lot. The eldest had the Mill, the second the Ass, and the youngest nothing but the Cat. ![]() They would soon have eaten up all the poor patrimony. ![]() Neither the scrivener nor attorney were sent for. There was a miller, who left no more estate to the three sons he had, than his Mill, his Ass, and his Cat. ![]()
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