The Monkey And The Cat

  Sly Bertrand and Ratto in company sat,

  (The one was a monkey, the other a cat,)

      Co-servants and lodgers:

      More mischievous codgers

  Ne'er mess'd from a platter, since platters were flat.

• ''Bertrand'', monkey


• ''Ratto'' (or ''Raton''), cat

• Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes , translated to English by Elizur Wright