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"I have no need to," said Mr. Frome's Cat oldly, "and we don't keep it in the yard."

"Don't tell me! precious fine you are with your wall behind, so high I can't climb over. How some people think they're too good for their neighbors!" and Mr. Grash's Cat looked spitefully across.

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"Our neighbors were not of our choosing," said Mr. Frome's Cat. "We hardly should select such ungenerous but, O dear! knew we should quarrel if we got on to this subject again. Come, it has begun to snow again, let us part."

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Ungenerous!" exclaimed Mr. Grash's Cat, -"ungenerous! is not this our land, and did we not have the right to build just where we pleased on our own land? and if your house happened to stand so near, say, was that our fault? and if your windows looked into ours on one side, say, did we make your windows? Ungenerous!"

"But, Mr. Grash," said Mr. Frome's Cat, they always called each other Mr. Frome and Mr. Grash when they got excited talking about the houses," but, Mr. Grash, our house was built first

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"And could no one else build a house after you, good Mr. Frome ? "

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"Nay, hear me, friend Grash. We built our house first when there was no other house near, and put windows upon this side purposely to see the fine view beyond. We tried to buy your land, but you would not sell, and said you had no thought of building; and then because you claimed that our fence was set a half foot on your ground, though the law showed it was not, what should you do but out of spite build a house on the very edge of your land, shutting out our view on that side and obliging us to close all the windows. I must say it was ungenerous; it was more, it was wicked! and Mr. Frome's Cat held up his paw and looked the other way.

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"0, 0!" snarled Mr. Grash's Cat, "and you are the upright, honest neighbor that went to law about it, and tried your best to impoverish us, and then offered to buy our house O, O! And your little boys have learned to call us names, and to fling stones at me! Say, was that wicked? And Mr. Grash's Cat bounced up and down in a rage, with both paws stretched out.

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"You shall have a piece of my mind, neighbor," said Mr. Frome's Cat, getting up in great excitement and standing on the very edge of the slippery roof. "But, O dear!" he

said, as his feet sank in the cold snow, "here we are quarreling again over this old matter," and he returned to his shelter by the window. "Do, pray, let us leave this horrid subject. What a charming night!"

Mr. Frome's Cat meant well, but he did not have much tact.

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"A charming night!" hissed the other. Say, what is the piece of your mind? O, how grand you feel!"

"You're hungry, friend," said Mr. Frome's Cat, soothingly. "Come, let us see what we can find."

"And well I may be," retorted the other fiercely, "with your high wall - O!"

"Well," said his neighbor, eager to keep the peace, “just jump across, and we'll go down there."

Now Mr. Grash's Cat never had jumped across before, but the temptation was so great to the hungry fellow that he did not hesitate more than a moment, and made the leap. Alas! perhaps he was weak, perhaps the distance was more than he thought, poor Mr. Grash's Cat just jumped into the air and went down, down, over and over, to the ground between the two houses. Mr. Frome's Cat saw him disappear; Mr. Frome's Cat rushed to the

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