Kittens at play, by Dutch painter Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1897). In private collection.

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  1. “Say, Henny, didn’t I ask you to watch my cats?”

    “Yes, yes you did.”

    “So you saw them scratching up my fancy chair, and knocking over my stuff?”

    “Yes.”

    “But you didn’t intervene?”

    “You only said: ‘Watch them’. So I did?”

    “…”

    “I did paint you this nice picture for Hebhetgelezen though!”

  2. ‘Tis a brave man who keeps an empty vase on a dresser in the same room as half a dozen cats.

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