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he cat, quite overjoyed to see how
his project was succeeding, ran on
ahead. Meeting some countrymen
who were mowing a meadow, he
said to them, "My good fellows, if
you do not tell the king that the
meadow you are mowing belongs to my Lord
Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped up like
mincemeat."
The king did not fail to ask the mowers whose
meadow it was that they were mowing.
"It belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas," they

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