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answered altogether, for the cat's threats had
frightened them.
"You see, sir," said the Marquis, "this is a
meadow which never fails to yield a plentiful
harvest every year."
The master cat, still running on ahead, met with
some reapers, and said to them, "My good
fellows, if you do not tell the king that all this
grain belongs to the Marquis of Carabas, you shall
be chopped up like mincemeat."
The king, who passed by a moment later, asked
them whose grain it was that they were reaping.
"It belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas,"
replied the reapers, which pleased both the king
and the marquis. The king congratulated him for
his fine harvest. The master cat continued to run
ahead and said the same words to all he met. The
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