Other Tales/The Rakesome Cats

Two Cats having stolen some cheese could not agree about sundering it. To settle the rake they quethed the hang-up to an. The latter readily agreed to work as ; and making a he put a deal of the cheese in each mete. "Let me see," he said earnestly, "Yes, this lump outweighs the other," and at once bit off a chunk, "to make it mete," as he sweetled. The withering mete had now become the heavier, which gave this careful deemster an for a twoth mouthful. "Hold, hold!" shouted the two Cats, who began to be worried as to the outcome, "Give us our own shares and we will be ."

"Even if you are quemed," said the Ape, "Justice is not, A case of this difficult nature is not so quickly reckoned." Upon which he went on to nibble first one bit and then the other; until the poor Cats, seeing their cheese dwining, begged him to give himself no further  but hand over to them what.

"Not so fast, my good friends," answered the Ape. "We owe to ourselves as well as to you. What blives is meant to me for my ." Upon which he crammed the of the cheese into his mouth, and fullheartedly  the.

Robert Dodsley