g with grin and grimace,
Despite of resistance, he lather'd her face.

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Now _Pug_ could not find either razor or knife,
So _Puss_ ran no hazard of losing her life;--
Yet razor or knife though they could not be had,
_Pug_ found what the terrified _Cat_ thought as bad;
A knife made of ivory, in use to cut paper,
With which Barber _Pug_ now proceeded to scrape her.

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But _Puss_ on a sudden deserted her station,
Disliking (no wonder) the strange operation,
And ran round the room without means of escaping;
While _Pug_, still determined to give her a scraping,
Pursued, and, regardless of struggle or prayer,
Fast bound her, at last, to the back of a chair.

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When, tucking a napkin close under her chin,
Each mew of dismay he return'd with a grin;
And yelling and chattering they raised such a clatter,
That _Susan_ rush'd in to learn what was the matter;
When _Pug_, overturning the chair midst the clack,
Ran off, leaving _Pussy_ stretched out on her back.

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The sight was to _Susan_ so curious, that faster
She ran _out_ than _in_, to tell _Mistress_ and _Master_;
But, when they came up, neither _Puss_ nor the _Shaver_
Was there, to account for improper behaviour;--
For _Pug_ had contrived, amid _Susan's_ alarms,
To reach the house-top, with Miss _Puss_ in his arms.

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Now fearing that _Pug_ or Miss _Puss_ might be maim'd,
"Go, fetch a long ladder," the _Master_ exclaim'd;
"And bring them down quickly both _Barber_ and _Cat_."
"Oh, oh!" thought the _Monkey_, "I _sha'nt suffer that_."--
The ladder was climb'd by a servant so valiant,
But _Pug_ with loose tiles soon repulsed the assailant.

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Against all manoeuvre apparently proof,
_Pug_ chatter'd and paced to and fro on the roof,
And fondled the _Cat_, and next, pitying her case,
He wiped with the napkin the suds from her face;
As nurse would a child, then he held her out _so_,
While all the spectators kept laughing below.

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Now seeing him thus to good humour inclined,
They thought he might prove more pacific of mind,
So mounted the ladder another assailer;
When _Pug_, of loose tiles now perceiving a failure,
Eluded the grasp of pursuit with a hop,
And gained an adjacent and tall chimney-pot.

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It chanced that the vent of this same chimney led
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