Original artwork, not a still
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Twain uses a cat to show how one bad experience can be over-learned. Burned once, the cat avoids the hot lid, which makes sense. Then it avoids a cold one too, and the joke is that caution stops telling real danger from harmless things.
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