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Give an account of Macavity’s destructive mischief.
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Solution
Macavity is a “Friend in feline shape”. He loots the food from the larder. Jewel's case gets ransacked. Milk gets robbed. A pekinese dog is stifled. Greenhouse glass is broken. Important agreement in the embassy is tom and important drawings in the admiralty are lost. The investigation team may find a scrap of paper on the stairs but Macavity always makes good his escape after doing all the above destructive activities. Besides, he is the Napoleon of crime controlling the operations of all cats in London.
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