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Cat and Fiddle

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a public-house sign, is a corruption of Caton le fidèle, meaning Caton, Governor of Calais.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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