`But that is just what I don't know,' the Other Professor rejoined. `My belief is, it plays with them to kill them!'

`Oh, that's quite a accident!' Bruno began, so eagerly, that it was evident he had already propounded this very difficulty to the Cat. `It 'splained all that to me, while it were drinking the milk. It said "I teaches the Mouses new games: the Mouses likes it ever so much." It said "Sometimes little accidents happens: sometimes the Mouses kills theirselves." It said "I's always welly sorry, when the Mouses kills theirselves." It said--'

`If it was so very sorry,' Sylvie said, rather disdainfully, `it wouldn't eat the Mouses after they'd killed themselves!'

But this difficulty, also, had evidently not been lost sight of in the exhaustive ethical discussion just concluded. `It said--' (the orator constantly omitted, as superfluous, his own share in the dialogue, and merely gave us the replies of the Cat) `It said "Dead Mouses never objecks to be eaten." It said "There's no use wasting good Mouses." It said "Wifful--" sumfinoruvver. It said "And oo may live to say `How much I wiss I had the Mouse that then I frew away!'" It said--'

`It hadn't time to say such a lot of things!' Sylvie interrupted indignantly.

`Oo doesn't know how Cats speaks!' Bruno rejoined contemptuously. `Cats speaks welly quick!'