He advanced, wagging his tail, and with his most insinuating air, when the cat, getting up, clapped the window in his face, and lo! Reynard the fox appeared in her stead.
"Come out, thou rascal!" said the dog, showing his teeth; "come out, I challenge thee to single combat; I have not forgiven thy malice, and thou seest that I am no longer shut up in the cave, and unable to punish thee for thy wickedness." "Go home, silly one!" answered the fox, sneering; "thou hast no business here, and as for fighting thee--bah!" Then the fox left the window and disappeared.

But the dog, thoroughly enraged, scratched lustily at the door, and made such a noise, that presently the cat herself came to the window.
"How now!" said she, angrily; "what means all this rudeness?
Who are you, and what do you want at my house ?" "Oh, my dear cousin," said the dog, "do not speak so severely.

Know that I have come here on purpose to pay you a visit; and, whatever you do, let me beseech you not to listen to that villain Reynard,--you have no conception what a rogue he is!" "What!" said the cat, blushing; "do you dare to abuse your betters in this fashion?
I see you have a design on me.

Go, this instant, or--" "Enough, madam," said the dog, proudly; "you need not speak twice to me,--farewell." And he turned away very slowly, and went under a tree, where he took up his lodgings for the night.

But the next morning there was an amazing commotion in the neighbourhood; a stranger, of a very different style of travelling from that of the dog, had arrived at the dead of the night, and fixed his abode in a large cavern hollowed out of a steep rock.