'[...] I have produced Nazimova. Nazimova never threw paper–knives at cats.'
'Well, I hate cats', said Miss Hobson, as though that settled it.
'I', murmured Miss Winch, 'love little pussy, her fur is so warm, and if I don't hurt her she'll do me no...'
The Adventures of Sally. 6.III First Aid for Fillmore
One of the first poems I ever learned – I don't know who wrote it, probably Shakespeare – ran
I love little pussy; her coat is so warm;
And if I don't hurt her, she'll do me no harm;
and that is how I have been all my life.
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Chapter 4