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Fables and true tales about animals, including a dog who regularly commuted to Matlock, a horse who didn’t approve of bad language, and a cat who saved her owners from an earthquake.

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The Cat Who Walks by Himself

The sly cat hatches a plan to get all the benefits of domestic life without any of the responsibilities.

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Posted February 8 2016

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Macarius and the Hyena

A monk of the Egyptian desert helped a desperate mother, and was richly rewarded.

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Posted February 5 2016

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Cuthbert and the Weary Hawk

A bird of prey shattered the peace of St Cuthbert’s island, and was taught an unforgettable lesson.

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Posted February 1 2016

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Cuthbert and the Expert Witness

A hungry monk thought he had got away with the tastiest of crimes, but St Cuthbert kept his promise to his beloved birds.

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Posted February 1 2016

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Angel Cat

By Jerome K. Jerome

Cats do have a conscience: it tells them when to look innocent.

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Posted March 13 2015

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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose!

By Charles H. Ross

(That’s cat-tails, obviously.) And who ever said cats were unpredictable?

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Posted March 13 2015

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Ye Children, Hearken Unto Me David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.

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Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.

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Metaphors Rewrite these sentences, substituting each metaphor with another of similar meaning.

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Vocabulary Compose sentences to illustrate the meaning of these words.

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Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.

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Verbs and Nouns Separate these words into two groups, nouns, and nouns that are also verbs. Which one’s the odd-one-out?

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The Peacock Throne The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.

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Description Think of three different kinds of clock or bag, and write sentences to distinguish them.

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Hat Think of three different kinds of clock or bag, and write sentences to distinguish them.

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Rich Harmony John Galsworthy urges the English to love their language as they love their country.

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Music Video William Hurlstone, The Magic Mirror Suite: VI. Interlude

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Expression Compare these five ways of saying the same thing, and say what each one adds.

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Anything to Declare? When the residents of Miramont Place in Pimlico declare independence, they mean to be taken seriously.

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Servants of the People A US Congressman tells the House why they mustn’t censor the press.

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How the Cobra Got His Spectacles John Wood shares the wonder of the Indian cobra’s hood, in science and in myth.

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Naughty Eppie Silas Marner has to harden his heart and teach little Eppie a lesson she will remember.

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Music Video Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children’s Intermezzo

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A European Fraud Dostoevsky had to break it to Moscow’s students that ordinary Russians found their brand of politics patronising.

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