The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat

“The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat:

If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse.

If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat,

If you put him in a flat then he’d rather have a house.

If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat,

If you set him on a rat then he’d rather chase a mouse.

Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat –

And there isn’t any call for me to shout it:

For he will do

As he do do

And there’s no doing anything about it!”

― T.S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats