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-  WHEN SHE WAS SEWING I JUMPED UPON HER SHOULDER. (_Page 54._)
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-                                  THE
-                          CATS’ ARABIAN NIGHTS
-                                   OR
-                             KING GRIMALKUM
-
-
-
-                          BY ABBY MORTON DIAZ
-
-
-                         _PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED
-                BY FRANCIS, BOZ, PALMER COX, AND OTHERS_
-
-
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-                                 BOSTON
-                           D. LOTHROP COMPANY
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-                            COPYRIGHT, 1881,
-                                   BY
-                          D. LOTHROP COMPANY.
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-                               CONTENTS.
-
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-                                                       PAGE.
-
-            KING GRIMALKUM AND PUSSYANITA                  9
-
-            THE STORY OF PINKY-WHITE                      14
-
-            THE STORY OF BLACK VELVET                     44
-
-            WHAT SNOWBALL TOLD                            67
-
-            MADAME PUSSY HUNTER’S STORY                   71
-
-            THE SPRY WHITE KITTEN’S STORY                 77
-
-            MRS. BEULAH BLACK’S STORY                     83
-
-            TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE                    102
-
-            STORY OF MISTRESS TABBY FURPURR              119
-
-            THE STORY OF THE FEEBLE CAT AND HER NINE     141
-              LIVES
-
-            THE STORY OF THE TWO CHARCOALS AND THE       169
-              FOUR SPEKKUMS
-
-            THE STORY OF THE JANJIBO AND OF THE FROG     190
-              AND THE RAT
-
-            WHAT THE MOTHER RAT TOLD                     198
-
-            A SPINNING STORY                             214
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-            THE BLIND MICE STORY                         215
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-            THE AIR-BALL STORY                           216
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-[Illustration:
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-  How It Happened.
-]
-
-
-One evening when a company of children and older people were looking at
-funny cat-pictures and telling cat-stories, a little ten-year-old girl
-asked: “Why can there not be a Cats’ Arabian Nights Story Book?”
-
-“There would have to be a Cat King, or Emperor, or Sultan,” said her
-next older sister.
-
-“And a Cat Queen, or Empress, or Sultaness,” said their cousin Joe, the
-sailor.
-
-“And she would have to go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on,
-and on, telling stories in order to save her own life,” said their
-cousin Lucia.
-
-“I propose,” said uncle Fred, “that cousin Lucia put together a Cats’
-Arabian Nights for little children, and have it ready to read to our
-little children when they all shall come next summer with their fathers
-and mothers.”
-
-“Oh yes! Yes! Do! Pray do! Won’t you do it? Say you will! Say you will!”
-cried many voices.
-
-“I think it will be fun to do it,” said cousin Lucia, “if you allow me
-to put in some make believe and nonsense, if I want to.”
-
-“Certainly!” was the cry. “Put in anything. Anything you please!”
-
-Cousin Lucia said she was willing to try, and thus it happened that the
-summer-children and others got a story book beginning, as all story
-books should begin, with—once upon a time.
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-[Illustration:
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-  King Grimalkum and Pussyanita;
-
-  OR,
-
-  The Cats’ Arabian Nights.
-]
-
-ONCE upon a time the aged Tommobus, King of the Cats, went forth a
-hunting and returned with a wound which caused his death. So Tommobus
-died and Grimalkum the Powerful became King in his stead.
-
-King Grimalkum was of course jet black all over without a single white
-hair, or he could not have been made king, and his eyes were of the true
-royal yellow.
-
-The first act of King Grimalkum’s reign was one of cruelty. He sent
-forth an order declaring that black, maltese, and gray, were the only
-colors to be allowed for cats, and that all cats which were white or
-yellow, or which had more white or yellow hairs than dark ones should
-not be permitted to live. Judges were appointed to measure the spots.
-
-This order caused great affright among the lighter cats. The wholly
-white and wholly yellow hid themselves or fled to distant places, and
-the partly white and partly yellow went in haste to have their dark
-spots measured by the judges.
-
-Among those who came before the judges was Pussyanita, a beautiful
-creature just out of kittenhood. Her playfulness and sweet disposition
-made her beloved by all.
-
-Alas! it was soon made known by the judges that the dark of Pussyanita
-measured many less hairs than her white ones. This caused great sorrow,
-and King Grimalkum was begged to spare her life.
-
-“Spare her life! Not if she were twenty Pussyanitas!” cried the King;
-which was a foolish answer, since she could not have been twenty
-Pussyanitas, or even nineteen.
-
-Now this sweet and gentle creature was so much beloved, that no one
-could be found willing to hurt a single hair of her. When King Grimalkum
-heard this he became furious with anger, and commanded that she be
-brought to him at once, saying that he himself would attend to the
-business, and make quick work of it. So the lovely Pussyanita was
-brought before the King.
-
-Her loveliness did not soften his heart; on the contrary he was made
-more furious than ever by seeing that she sat licking her fur as quietly
-as if sitting in her own sunny garden spot.
-
-“What are you doing that for, you silly thing?” he cried. “Don’t you
-know you have but a few moments to live?”
-
-“Yes, your majesty,” replied the lovely Pussyanita, “but I cannot endure
-a speck of dirt, and with good reason, for in me you see a descendant,
-and great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times great
-grandchild of the unhappy and happy Pinky-white. Your majesty must have
-heard of Pinky-white.”
-
-“Never,” said the king, sternly. “But why do you call her unhappy and
-happy? There is no sense in that.”
-
-“She was not unhappy and happy at the same time,” said Pussyanita. “She
-was first unhappy and afterwards happy.”
-
-“How was that?” asked the king. “And supposing you _are_ the great,
-great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times great granddaughter of
-Pinky-white, what has that to do with your being unable to endure a
-speck of dirt?”
-
-Said the lovely Pussyanita, “It would give me pleasure, your majesty, to
-explain why my great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times
-great grandmother was first unhappy, and why she was afterwards happy,
-also supposing I _am_ the great, great, great, great, great,
-twenty-seven times great granddaughter of Pinky-white, what that has to
-do with my being unable to endure a speck of dirt; it would give me
-pleasure, I say, to explain all this, but it would take a longer time
-than I have to live.”
-
-“Time shall be granted you,” said the king, “for I am curious to know
-why your great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times great
-grandmother Pinky-white was unhappy and why she was happy, and to know
-why your being her great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times
-great granddaughter should be a reason why you are unable to endure a
-speck of dirt.”
-
-“At your majesty’s request,” replied Pussyanita, “I will tell you the
-story of my great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times great
-grandmother Pinky-white, as she herself told it, when ordered to do so,
-at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party.”
-
-“Stop!” cried the king. “Why was your great, great, great, great, great,
-twenty-seven times great grandmother Pinky-white ordered to tell her
-story at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party? Who was Lady Yellow-paw? Why
-was her party famous?”
-
-“Please your majesty,” replied Pussyanita, “I shall be happy to explain
-to your majesty who was Lady Yellow-paw, and why her party was famous,
-and why my great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times great
-grandmother Pinky-white was ordered to tell her story at that party, but
-your majesty must perceive that to do all this will require much time.”
-
-“Begin then!” cried the king. “Begin with your Lady Yellow-paw and her
-famous party, and then go on to your twenty-seven times great
-grandmother; and do not waste time waiting or waste words in the
-telling.”
-
-The lovely Pussyanita bowed and began with Lady Yellow-paw and her
-famous party, and then went on to tell the story of Pinky-white as told
-by herself at that famous party.
-
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-[Illustration:
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-  The Story of Pinky-White.
-]
-
-
-“The first that I knew of myself, I found myself by the side of my
-mother, among some hay in a basket along with three other kittens of my
-own age and size. Two of our number were quickly stolen from us. It will
-thus be seen that I had scarcely begun to live before I began to be
-unhappy. As I grew older I became more and more unhappy, for the place
-was cold, the floor was hard, our mother cuffed us, and girl-Mary, who
-owned us, knew not the best way of stroking.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Girl-Jane and Girl-Mary.
-]
-
-“One day when girl-Mary sat by our basket, girl-Jane came down there
-bringing her own cat and kittens. Girl-Jane had called to see us many
-times, and I had been pleased with the looks of her face, and the sounds
-of her voice, and the touches of her fingers; and she knew the best way
-of stroking. “Girl-Jane was smaller than girl-Mary, but she knew more.
-Girl-Jane said she wanted girl-Mary to change kittens with her. She
-wanted me and Minnie because we were whiter than her kittens.
-
-“‘No, Jane,’ said girl-Mary, ‘I can’t change, for you know mine are all
-named, and besides your cat would not like it. She knows what we are
-talking about. Don’t you see how anxious she looks?’
-
-“It made me unhappy to hear this. I wanted to go with girl-Jane, away
-from the cold place, and the hard floor, and my cross mother and be
-stroked the best way. Minnie too wished to go. She cried when girl-Mary
-gave back the other kittens. As for me, I could only turn away and hide
-my sorrowful face.
-
-“My next unhappiness was the unhappiness of being whipped with a rod. An
-old lady wished for a cat to catch her mice and thought she would take a
-kitten and teach it to behave well. I was carried to her home. I had
-here a warm place, and a carpet, and the old lady did not stroke at all,
-so that I was not made unhappy by bad stroking. But my unhappiness was
-great, on account of the rod. It was rod here and rod there; rod on the
-pantry shelf and rod on the chair-cushion; rod on the parlor sofa and
-rod on the best bed; rod at the milk pitcher, and rod at the custard
-pie.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Well Made for Catching.
-]
-
-“A greater unhappiness must now be told. For this greater unhappiness
-was the cause of another unhappiness even greater than this—oh, very
-much greater! It was the cause of a long and dreadful unhappiness in
-which I nearly starved to death. It was something which would make any
-and every cat unhappy. It was this. I could not catch well. Mice, birds,
-moles, bats, squirrels, rabbits, almost always got away from me. I think
-I must have been born short-clawed.
-
-“In a corner of the garden was a chicken-coop. This chicken-coop was
-well made for catching. It would seem that all a cat need do was to lie
-quietly on top, looking over the edge, and when a chicken popped out,
-spring and catch it. Any other cat would have done all this. The next
-house cat did do all this. I did not do all this. I lay quietly on top
-of the chicken-coop. I looked over the edge, and when a chicken popped
-out I sprang. I did everything the next house cat did _except_ to catch
-the chicken.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Did My Best.
-]
-
-“I had the same luck in fishing. There was a stream at the bottom of our
-garden and at its edge were large mossy rocks on which a cat might
-stretch herself in the sun, or if the day were hot she might lie in
-their cool shade. Trees grew near by and any other cat would have often
-caught a bird among their branches. The next house cat did this. I did
-not do this. Any other cat than myself would have now and then caught a
-fish in the stream at the foot of the rocks. The next house cat did
-this. I did not do this. I often lay close to the water—as shown how to
-do by the next house cat, and watched the fishes as they glided past.
-When one rose to the top I did my best to catch it, but even did I have
-the luck to touch one, it was sure to slip out and away. I used to think
-sometimes that if fishes had not been made so slippery I could have held
-on, but then the next house cat held on to slippery fishes. I am almost
-sure I must have been born short-clawed.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Bold Little Thing!
-]
-
-“As for squirrels and rabbits, they seemed at last to be not a bit
-afraid of me, even when I had become a full-grown cat. One saucy
-squirrel used to tease me by coming very near and then darting out of my
-reach. This squirrel became very bold. He even popped in at the doors
-and windows. One day when I was asleep on the sofa by the library
-window, he ran as near me as the back of the sofa—bold little thing!
-and by the time I had turned over he was out of the window, and I soon
-got sight of his bushy tail whisking through the tall tree-tops, and of
-his little bright eyes looking down at me through the leaves. He would
-not have got away so easily from the next house cat. There can be no
-doubt but that I must have been born short-clawed.
-
-“The next house cat caught mice. I did not. I might have caught some had
-not the mouse-holes been made so small. But then the next house cat had
-the same kind of mouse-holes I had.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Next House Cat
-]
-
-“Sometimes I thought if I had been a Tabby I might have caught as well
-as the next house cat. But then I could not be a Tabby.
-
-“One day—oh unhappy day! the next house cat’s mistress came to see my
-mistress, and they talked of cats. I lay outside under the open window
-and heard every word, and understood. Mistresses, as you very well know,
-dear Lady Yellow-paw—as all of you at this famous party very well
-know—mistresses have no idea how much their cats can understand.
-
-“Said my mistress, ‘Pinky-white is the neatest cat that ever was seen.
-She will have no dirt on her fur. She licks off every speck. She keeps
-herself snow white. And I have taught her to behave well. I no longer
-keep a rod. But she catches no mice.’
-
-“‘You feed her too well,’ said the next house cat’s mistress. ‘Send her
-to Miss Rhody and get you a mouser. Miss Rhody is out of a cat and is
-waiting to find a neat one. Miss Rhody has managed cats these forty
-years and knows how to do it. Miss Rhody never feeds a cat. If it won’t
-catch mice she drowns it.’
-
-“‘I will send Pinky-white to Miss Rhody to-morrow,’ said my mistress.
-
-“This frightened me. Oh what should I do? What could I do? In my agony
-of distress I ran round and round in a circle in the potato patch, tore
-up the squash vines, and at last I sprang over the high wall, and in
-that house and garden I was never seen more.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  But Alas! Three Others Were Gnawing the Bone.
-]
-
-“Then began the terrible unhappiness of my life. No tongue can tell what
-I suffered. Hiding behind fences, under barns, in empty pig-styes, empty
-hen-houses; being driven from back doors, hooted at by boys, barked at
-by dogs, and hungry, hungry, hungry, oh so hungry!—for I could not catch
-well—and always dirty! Ah! none who have not felt it can know the
-unhappiness of a cat without a home!
-
-“One night I thought surely I should taste a bit of meat. A
-black-and-white kitten kindly told me of a large bone she had seen in a
-yard, and we scampered to that yard. But alas! three others were already
-gnawing the bone and there was nothing on the bone, for a tommy cat had
-kept the others away till he had eaten off all the meat and then he sat
-seeing them gnaw the bare bone. I did not gnaw. I did not wish to gnaw
-bare bone.
-
-“One day a dreadful thing happened to me. It was when I was hungrier
-than I had ever been before, though I had been very hungry. I was so
-hungry I thought I could not live, and I went into the fields to try to
-catch something. It was a silly thing for me to try to catch a rat when
-I was short-clawed.
-
-“I did. A great rat went into a field and I thought, oh if I could only
-get that rat! I _must_ have that rat! I _must_!
-
-“I put myself down flat and crept behind that rat. He went creeping
-through some wheat and corn and I crept behind, quicker than he, for I
-could creep quicker. He went up a large stalk to his nest. I sprang up
-and grabbed him, but alas! I could not take good hold and he got away
-and sprang at me and the mother rat sprang out at me and they bit me,
-and would have killed me, but I got away and ran with all my might, and
-lay down under some bushes, and pretty soon that same black and white
-kitten came and licked the blood off me and brought me a mole to eat, or
-I never should have stirred from that spot.
-
-“As the weather grew colder I suffered more and more. I longed for a
-home.
-
-“Often at evening I ran behind persons hoping to be invited to their
-houses, but they always drove me back.
-
-“During all this time I was obliged to endure the distress of knowing
-that my fur was not perfectly clean.
-
-“When winter came my unhappiness was greater than it had ever been
-before, though it had already been very great.
-
-“But one day, oh joyful day! my unhappiness came to an end, oh joyful
-end! I will tell how this happened.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  He Went Up a Large Stalk to His Nest.
-]
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Kind Maiden.
-]
-
-“The ground was covered with snow, slosh and mud. I had been running
-hither and thither, under barns, in coal cellars, and in other places
-trying to catch something, but having had the misfortune, as I have
-already told your ladyship, the misfortune of being born short-clawed, I
-had caught nothing. Begrimed with dirt, hungry, cold, forlorn, I was on
-my way to my jumping spot. This was the corner of a wall near a back
-door. It was also near to some bushes and trees all snugly fenced in,
-and under these I had often hid myself and tried to clean my fur and
-watched for the back door to open. I called it my jumping spot because
-sometimes I jumped from that spot and got in at the back door and
-snatched a bit from the plate of the cat which belonged to the house.
-Sometimes a kind maiden had thrown me scraps from one of the windows.
-
-“Now just as I was to jump from my jumping spot I saw this kind maiden
-coming down the steps. She had her pet kitten in her arms and was
-tending it with care. ‘Oh pet kitten! pet kitten!’ I mewed to it. ‘How
-little you know the unhappiness of a cat without a home!’ Mewing this, I
-hung my tail and was slinking out of sight when I heard these words.
-
-“‘Puss! Puss! Pussy! Pussy! Puss!’ How I wished I could think they were
-spoken to me! ‘Pussy! Poor Pussy! Here Pussy!’ I turned my head, but
-kept moving. ‘Pussy! Pussy! Pussy! Puss! Poor Pussy! Pussy! Pussy! Here
-Pussy! Poor Pussy!’ I stopped.
-
-“‘Pussy! Here Pussy! come Pussy!’
-
-“Yes! they were—they were spoken to me! She was looking at me! ‘Good old
-Pussy! come here, good old Pussy!’
-
-“She held out her hand. I dared not go. She went in and placed a saucer
-of milk on the kitchen hearth, called me and left the door open, and
-went to another room. I crept in to the hearth, and lapped, lapped,
-lapped, oh how I did lap! No tongue can tell the sweetness of that milk!
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  She Took Me Up.
-]
-
-“As soon as I had eaten the milk I examined the things in the room, then
-I rolled over and over on the door mat to get the coal dust off, then I
-sat on the hearth and licked myself clean. The cook came in and shook
-the broom at me and cried: ‘Scat! Scat!’ Just then the kind maiden
-showed her face at the door. ‘Here’s a strange cat!’ the cook said to
-her. ‘We don’t want another cat!’
-
-“‘Why! how white and clean she has made herself,’ said the maiden. ‘She
-is a neat cat. I have often seen her cleaning herself out under the
-bushes. I mean to keep her. She is just the cat for poor Ellen.’
-
-“I went and rubbed against her clothes, rubbed hard, and tried to purr
-loud enough to make her understand that I said in purr language, ‘I love
-you, love you. Don’t send me away!’
-
-“Oh the happiness of a cat with a good home! I had now a good home. I
-was held in laps, stroked well, talked to, even kissed. I had warm milk,
-meat scraps, and plenty of fish. I was not expected to catch. I wonder
-why cats are almost always expected to catch.
-
-“I went every day to see poor Ellen. I used to go up after breakfast and
-scratch the door and get myself let in. When she combed her hair I sat
-close to her looking-glass, and looked at her while she combed her hair,
-and when she sat down to rest I lay on the floor and waited, and when
-she put on her shoes I kept at her feet, and rubbed her feet, and then I
-rubbed against her a good deal and purred to be taken up, and she took
-me up. Poor Ellen could not walk much but she could hold me. She liked
-me because I kept myself so clean and white.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Hen’s Lesson in Neatness.
-]
-
-“The maiden said she never before saw a cat which could not endure a
-speck of dirt. She said she believed I taught her other cats to be neat.
-This might not have been true, but it was certainly true that while I
-was with them the other cats were very careful to clean themselves after
-eating. One day she called the family to see us. ‘Look!’ she cried.
-‘Look at my cat that cannot endure a speck of dirt! I do believe that
-rooster has brought his hen to make her take a lesson in neatness.’
-
-“This might not have been true, either. He might have brought her to
-make her take a lesson in neatness, or he might have brought her for the
-scraps we often left.
-
-“Speaking of hens, a chicken made something happen to me which does not
-often happen to a cat. Our hen hatched out a brood of chickens and while
-they were little she was carried off by a fox. All the chickens died
-except two, and one of these had a weak throat. When the fox carried off
-the hen he stepped on that little chicken’s neck and it had a weak
-throat ever after. One day when I was in a far corner of the garden I
-heard a curious noise like a choking, or a peeping, but more like a
-choking than a peeping. I watched, and presently that little chicken
-came out of the grass. I should have sprung upon it if I had not seen
-that it was in distress and was coming to me for help. It had got a bug
-stuck in its throat. It came close to me and I licked it, and purred to
-it and tried to cover it over with myself just as its own mother used
-to. Pretty soon it swallowed that bug.
-
-“After this it often came to me to be licked and purred to when it had a
-bug or a worm stuck in its throat, and at last it brought the other
-chicken, and I tried to be a mother to them both, for my dear little
-kittens had all been sent away. The other chicken grew faster than the
-first one; it had a strong throat to swallow with. I took great care of
-them both and licked them clean, for I could not bear a speck of dirt on
-them any more than if they had been my kittens.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Tried to Be a Mother to Them Both.
-]
-
-“Now when the maiden saw me doing this she told her brother that if I
-could live peaceably with chickens I could with birds, and that she
-meant to try me. She first fed me well then brought to me a tame bird.
-Its wings had been clipped so that it could not fly and it was very
-hungry. It was afraid of me and it hopped round crying its bird kind of
-cry. But I did not touch it and when it saw me licking the chicken it
-hopped near me to get some rice which both the chickens were eating. In
-a few days the bird and I were good friends. He let me lick him and he
-used to sit on my head and sing, and we all ate our meals together until
-the chickens died. The first one died of its weak throat and the other
-died of the bite of a cat. One day a girl brought her cat to see us. She
-kept her up high on her shoulders, away from us, but when that other
-chicken put its head out to pick up a bug, that cat jumped down quick
-and caught that chicken by the head, and it died afterwards.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Happy Family.
-]
-
-“But before these died the maiden and her brother tamed some young
-guinea pigs and some young white mice, and made them grow up friends.
-They stayed in a pen close to ours until we all became acquainted with
-each other and then the slats between the pens were taken off, and the
-two pens were made into one and we all lived together. I must own that
-at first I did wish to catch a mouse just for the sake of catching one,
-and though born short-clawed I could no doubt have caught one in a pen,
-but the maiden thought I might have such a wish and pared my claws. I
-was very happy with my new friends. After I knew the little mice I had
-no wish to catch them. I played with them and let them run over my back.
-When one comes to know mice, one likes their company and finds them very
-agreeable and playful and lively.
-
-“The maiden’s brother said they might as well have a Happy Family, and
-he trained some big birds and other birds and they came to live with us
-and we were a very Happy Family.
-
-“When the maiden and her brother went away to live in another place they
-sold us to a showman to put in his show. The showman travels about the
-country showing his show. A few days ago the wagon we were in upset and
-our door came open. The birds flew away, the mice hid under a rock and
-the guinea pigs ran into the woods. I am on my way back home, and I
-shall stay in this place only long enough to attend your ladyship’s
-famous party.
-
-“Said Lady Yellow-paw to my great, great, great, great, great,
-twenty-seven times great grandmother Pinky-white, when she had ended her
-story, said Lady Yellow-paw: ‘Pinky-white, you do not speak of having a
-dog in your Happy Family.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Used to Play With a Dog’s Tail!
-]
-
-“She had hardly said this before a tittering, chuckling, clicking noise
-was heard and out spoke a pert little spotted black-and-white kitten and
-said, ‘Te! he! he! I used to play with a dog’s tail! A black,
-peeked-nosed dog’s tail, and his name was Trippy; and he was good to me.
-He had a curly tail.’
-
-“‘Silence!’ cried the spotted black-and-white kitten’s mother. ‘Don’t
-you know better than to speak up at a famous party—a little thing like
-you? Silence!’
-
-“‘Trippy liked me after you went away,’ cried another kitten; a white
-one. ‘He liked me better than he liked you. He let me play with his
-ears, and sleep on his neck, and he cried for me when I was out of his
-sight. When somebody threw me in the water, Trippy took me out with his
-mouth.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  He Took Me Out.
-]
-
-“This kitten’s mother was not at the party, but its snappish old aunt,
-Black Velvet, was there and she gave it a smart box on the ear. ‘It is a
-pity,’ said she, ‘if at a famous party like this we older ones cannot be
-heard for the noise of these pert little minxes. I myself could tell a
-strange story; a story stranger far than even the one just heard from
-that very neat puss, Pinky-white, with her Happy and her Unhappy, and
-her Not a Speck of Dirt! Was she blown off a tree in a whirlwind? Answer
-me that; or did she go to sea in a baby’s crib? Answer me that.’
-
-“Said Lady Yellow-paw to Black Velvet, ‘Let me hear your strange story,
-how you were blown off a tree in a whirlwind, and how you came to go to
-sea in a baby’s crib.’
-
-“Here the cat that hadn’t common sense rushed round the ring and stood
-on her head and said, ‘I can tell the strangest story of all, for I can
-tell why I haven’t got common sense.’”
-
-When the lovely Pussyanita had told thus far she stopped suddenly and
-said to King Grimalkum, “I beg your majesty’s pardon. Oh King Grimalkum,
-you only wished to hear the story of my great, great, great, great,
-great, twenty-seven times great grandmother Pinky-white, and I have
-told, besides this, of the spotted black-and-white kitten who played
-with the peeked-nosed little black dog’s tail, and of the white kitten
-he took out of the water, and have also spoken of Black Velvet who was
-blown off a tree in a whirlwind and afterwards went to sea in a baby’s
-crib, and of the cat who hadn’t common sense—I will say no more.”
-
-“You shall say more,” said King Grimalkum, sternly. “I can never close
-my eyes to slumber until I know how it happened that Black Velvet was
-blown off a tree in a whirlwind and afterwards went to sea in a baby’s
-crib.
-
-“A baby’s crib is a strange thing to go to sea in; why not in a boat? or
-in a tub? or even on a board? Why go to sea at all, when there is plenty
-of ground, and when cats hate water? And as for that other cat, why had
-she not common sense? She needed common sense. Every cat needs common
-sense.”
-
-“I can tell your majesty in a few words why the cat that hadn’t common
-sense hadn’t common sense,” replied Pussyanita. “It was because she lost
-it. Do you ask how? I answer by a looking-glass and a clock.
-
-“When quite young she looked in a looking-glass and saw herself there,
-and thought it was another cat staring at her, and got mad at that other
-cat, and flew at it, and broke the glass, and frightened herself so that
-she ran all over the house and when she came to the clock the clock door
-was open and she jumped in. The clock door got shut and she had long to
-stay there, and the noises in the clock almost made her crazy, and she
-never had common sense afterwards. This tells why the cat that hadn’t
-common sense hadn’t common sense,” continued Pussyanita; “but to tell
-all about Black Velvet, and how it happened that she was blown off a
-tree in a whirlwind, why she went to sea at all when there was plenty of
-ground and cats hate water, will take a longer time than I have to
-live.”
-
-“Time shall be granted you,” cried King Grimalkum. “Go on! go on at
-once!”
-
-The lovely Pussyanita then went on, and went on at once, to tell the
-Story of Black Velvet as told by herself at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous
-party.
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Story of Black Velvet.
-]
-
-
-“I was born in a barn. My brothers and sisters were born in the same
-place. There were four of us, all of the same age and size. As soon as
-we could run our mother took us all over the great barn-country. She did
-everything for our good. She showed us the holes and told us which were
-mouse-holes and which were rat-holes. She showed us how to spring and
-how to catch, and how to hold. She brought us many kinds of eatable bugs
-and taught us to snap at flies and to beware of wasps. At night she went
-forth to hunt for us the slippery mole which slips so swiftly through
-the grass. At day she purred us sweetly to sleep, or sometimes she let
-us go with her to the wheatfields and get a peep at the moles and watch
-the field mice running up and down the wheat stalks.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Moles.
-]
-
-“We lived in the hayloft and oh what frolics we used to have! What
-frolics! What frolics! We raced, we scampered, we skipped, we hopped, we
-tumbled over each other, we tumbled over ourselves, we chased each
-others’ tails, we chased our own tails, we played hide-and-seek in the
-hay, we scrambled up the beams, we ran along the rafters, we peeped
-down, we took turns sitting in our sunbeam—I speak now of a sunbeam
-which shone through a knot-hole.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  With Her Eyes Half Shut.
-]
-
-“Our mother liked to curl herself up and sit with her eyes half shut
-watching our sports. She would sit a long, long time, scarcely moving,
-except to stir the end of her tail. We were happy to have her near us.
-She was gentle in her manners, though of course when she was watching,
-or catching, or holding, she looked fierce. Any cat would do so. She was
-not one of the cross kind, always cuffing and boxing and snapping and
-growling and spitting. She never punished us but once and that was when
-we were very little. We fell down the crooked stairs which led up to our
-home. She had always made us keep away from the small ends of the
-crooked stairs because there was no room there to put our paws.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Watching a Mouse.
-]
-
-“One day our mother had been watching a mouse at the bottom of the
-crooked stairs while we played at the top. I hopped too near the small
-ends and peeped down and my brothers and sisters hopped at me, and down
-we all went, heels over head. Our mother was angry, for she lost the
-mouse. We went without our dinner and had other punishment which I need
-not mention.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  White Satin at Home.
-]
-
-“Now the noise we made in falling down and in being punished was heard
-by some girls playing on the barn floor and they scrambled up a ladder
-to find out what was the matter. When one of the girls who climbed up
-the ladder saw me she said, ‘Oh! oh! A black kitten! Do give it to me!
-She will make three! Then I shall have three black ones and three white
-ones!’
-
-“‘Yes! do take her!’ said the other girl. ‘If you don’t take her she
-will be drowned.’
-
-“The next day I was put in a box with holes in the cover and carried a
-long, long way to a strange place. This made me sorrowful, but still I
-was glad not to be drowned, and after the first day the five other
-kittens began to be friendly, and the two black ones were glad I came,
-for there were then as many black ones as white ones. I was named Black
-Velvet to match White Velvet. The others were Black Floss and White
-Floss and Black Satin and White Satin.
-
-“White Satin used to run away and go home to her mother and her sisters.
-She had a gray mother and two gray sisters. Sometimes we went with her.
-She liked to play with her sisters and show them her ribbon. Our
-mistress wished us not to go and tried to keep us in the house. I did
-not like this, I wanted to scamper across the garden, or down to the
-river, or across a field to an old barn. I peeped all about and found
-good places to get out by. Then I used to coax White Velvet, and White
-Floss, and White Satin, and Black Floss, and Black Satin to go. I always
-went first and they followed.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  They Looked Down Upon Us.
-]
-
-“There were two gray kittens living in the barn, and the first day we
-went there these two ran and jumped into a wheelbarrow and looked down
-upon us. Pretty soon they began to stretch out their necks, and shake
-their tails. Then they crept down, then they crept towards us, and began
-to glare and spit, and sputter, and their tails grew so big we thought
-we had better go home.
-
-“We liked to go to the barn on account of the chances to catch mice. The
-gray kittens flew at us every time we went, and at last one of them hit
-White Velvet in the eye and made it bleed. Our mistress kept us in the
-house after that, but we had fun racing over the beds and playing in the
-curtains. We played in the curtains so much that our claws had to be cut
-at the points. We were almost as well treated as children. Our milk was
-warmed, we had plenty of squash, and fish, and a good deal of chicken
-meat. Catnip was brought for us. We had each a basket to sleep in, and
-the baskets were trimmed with ribbons and had cushions. We had ribbons
-on our necks; the catnip was good.
-
-“But I did not like staying in the house all the time and every chance
-there was I jumped out at an open window or door, and White Velvet,
-White Floss, White Satin, Black Floss and Black Satin all jumped and
-went wherever I went. But after the Great Whirlwind, I was kept in the
-house. I will now speak of the Great Whirlwind.
-
-“It was a cold day and it seemed as if a door never would be left open,
-but one was left open at last, and out I went, and out went White
-Velvet, White Floss, White Satin, Black Floss and Black Satin after me.
-We raced across the fields to the barn. The gray kittens were not at
-home and we watched mouse-holes, and chased mice till a man came and
-drove us out and shut the door tight.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  We Saw a Great Dog Coming.
-]
-
-“The wind blew; the sky was dark; the sun did not shine. We felt rain
-drops. This set us scampering. When we were in the field we saw a great
-dog coming and we ran to a tree and scampered up. I stopped to spit at
-the dog and was the last one up. The sky grew blacker, the wind blew
-harder and harder. The dog lay down on the ground and howled. Not one of
-us durst come down. The rain came hard upon us. The tree branches
-whirled round and round. It was a great wind. It was a whirlwind. It
-blew off all the leaves that had been left on and then it blew us off.
-For it was a great wind. Yes, a whirlwind. A dreadful whirlwind. I hope,
-dear Lady Yellow-paw, that neither you nor any one at this famous party
-will ever know the feeling of being blown off a tree in a whirlwind. I
-hope you nor any one at this famous party will know the feeling of being
-in a tree in a whirlwind with claws that have been pared down at the
-points. None of our bones were broken. How thankful we all ought to be
-that we are cats and not children, for we have cushions on our feet, so
-that we can be blown down without having any bones broken.
-
-“None of our bones were broken but we were drenched with the wet rain.
-We were almost dead with the fright and the wet rain and we crawled all
-the way home.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Off a Tree in a Whirlwind.
-]
-
-“Our mistress was looking for us. She said, ‘Oh you naughties, come in
-quick!’ We crawled in and she wiped us with a dry cloth and laid us in a
-row in front of the stove, and gave us a warm supper and then some
-catnip.
-
-“After this she kept me in the house. Said she, ‘Black Velvet, you put
-mischief into the others’ heads and I will keep you in. Black Satin,
-Black Floss, White Velvet, White Floss and White Satin you may go. Black
-Velvet shall stay with me.’
-
-“It was hard to see Black Floss, Black Satin, White Velvet, White Floss
-and White Satin skipping in the yard, over fences, up and down
-clothes-poles, and be myself shut up indoors. But how little we know
-what is best for us! One day those others did of themselves go to a
-corn-house, and there they tasted bad meat which had been put there to
-kill rats, and they all died! Every one, Black Floss, Black Satin, White
-Velvet, White Floss, White Satin, every one died. Oh how my mistress did
-cry! And I too. Yes, I was sad and lonely. I went crying round from room
-to room, calling for my lost playmates. I looked in all their baskets.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  My Mistress.
-]
-
-“My mistress seemed to love me more than ever. ‘I have only you, now,
-Black Velvet,’ she would say. Then she would hug me and hug me. She let
-me do what I pleased. I had thick cream. When she was sewing I jumped on
-her shoulder and played in her hair, and I went to sleep in her hat, if
-I wanted to, and in her work-basket. When she went out to walk she used
-to take me with her and wrap me up in her apron, and talk to me. But
-when I grew to be a cat she made me a blanket of my own. It was a good
-one. It was my own blanket. She loved me a great deal.
-
-“I said at the beginning of my story that it is a wonderful story. You
-will say that this is true when you hear what happened to me next.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Felt Safe.
-]
-
-“One day the river grew very big and spread up to the houses, yes, up
-over the windows of the houses, and broke the houses in pieces. I was
-sleeping in a rocking chair and the water wet me and waked me from sleep
-and I sprang up on top the rocking chair back, and the water swashed and
-there was a great noise and the rocking chair went sailing off and many
-other things went, and the chair began to go down deeper and then I
-jumped off on to a bucket. Something hit that a knock and I had only
-time to catch hold of a box; a small one. There was just room to get all
-my paws on and I had to stick my back up high. I expected every moment
-to be drowned. I little thought I should live to tell the story. But a
-piece of board was knocked against me. I sprang upon that. Then came a
-chair. I sprang upon that. Then came something else; some thing
-wonderful, but I said at the beginning that this is a wonderful story.
-This next thing was a baby’s crib with the baby in it! The curtains were
-open and the baby was looking out. I jumped from the chair to the cradle
-and lay down on the baby. I was glad enough to get that resting place. I
-felt safe with the baby. Somebody would come to get the baby. The baby
-put out its hands and took hold of me.
-
-“I don’t know what became of that poor baby. The crib tipped over. I
-heard a man speak, and perhaps he went and got the baby. I was lucky
-enough to jump on to a firkin, and on this I floated down, down, down,
-down, I don’t know where, but I cried, cried, cried, oh how I cried!
-
-“I bumped against something hard, something very big. I scrambled up.
-Men were on it, and a woman, and a girl, and boys. They clapped and
-shouted and laughed. Oh what a noise! Don’t people know that loud noises
-make our ears ache? Don’t they know that our ears are made to hear very
-little faint mouse-taps, butterfly-wing noises, and we can’t bear loud
-noises? No, they don’t know. But I must go on with my story.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Used to Get Into the Place Where the Girl Slept.
-]
-
-“That big hard thing was not a house nor a barn. It moved over the
-water. You cats that have lived only on ground cannot think how dreadful
-it is to stay in the midst of water. Not a bit of ground! No grass to
-eat. Oh I thought I should die for want of a bit of something green! No
-trees to climb! But there were some very high poles set for me to climb;
-poles taller than trees, and ropes and everything handy fixed for me to
-hang on by. I was treated well. The men fed me, the women fed me, the
-girl fed me, the boys fed me. The cook taught me some tricks which I
-shall be happy to show to those present at this famous party, if I shall
-be properly invited. A little girl held me and she put me around her
-neck for a comforter. I let her do it. The cook hung a bell round my
-neck. The noise of it pained my ears, and I was glad when the woman took
-it off. She took it off because I used to get into the place where the
-girl slept, and wake her up.
-
-“Now when the ship came to the ground the cook put me into a bag and got
-into a cart. He was going to give me away. Pretty soon I smelled grass.
-Then I scratched and cried. Oh how I did want a piece of something green
-and to roll in the grass! Every cat here knows it would be a hard thing
-to live without something green. I soon got something green, and plenty
-of it. The cook opened the bag a little, to show me to another man and I
-took a sudden spring and away I went, and the more he called, ‘Puss!
-Puss! Puss!’ the faster I ran, and at last I found myself all alone in
-the fields, in a strange country.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Two Live Things Sitting Together.
-]
-
-“I rolled over and over, and tore up the grass, and ran up and down
-trees, and then I lay down behind a bush and watched to see if there
-were any moles or field mice in that country. Pretty soon I saw two live
-things sitting together. They looked like rats, but they had white on
-them. They were sitting in the sun. I was going to spring at them, but I
-stopped. I was in a strange country. How did I know if the creatures
-were good to eat? They might be bad as that bad meat which killed poor
-White Velvet, White Satin, White Floss, Black Satin, and Black Floss; or
-they might have dreadful teeth, or dreadful claws.
-
-“While I was waiting a minute to think about it, I heard a sound in the
-grass; a creep, creep, creep, creeping sound in the grass. It was a cat.
-But she did not spring quick enough. They heard her and skipped out of
-sight quicker than a wink.
-
-“As the cat sprang past me I could see that she had no tail. ‘Poor
-thing,’ I said, ‘she has lost it in a trap!’ Pretty soon I saw another
-cat without any tail. Then some kittens without any tails. I thought
-that must be a dreadful place for traps. I dared not step in the grass
-to hunt.
-
-“I got very hungry keeping still without hunting for mice and moles, and
-at last I went to a house. In the yard of the house a black-and-white
-cat without a tail stood and looked at me.
-
-“‘What do you want here?’ said she.
-
-“‘I want to go in the house,’ said I.
-
-“‘Be off!’ said she.
-
-“‘I won’t!’ said I.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Black-And-White Cat.
-]
-
-“Then she began to spit, and she flew at me, and I flew at her. A woman
-came running out and took me up. ‘Oh you beautiful creature!’ she said.
-‘You’ve got a tail! I’m so glad to get a cat with a tail.’ I must tell
-you, dear Lady Yellow-paw and all present at this famous party that the
-cats of that strange place did not have any tails. ‘No tails!’ cried
-Lady Yellow-paw and others. ‘How then do they show when they are glad
-and when they are mad?’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Mouse That Black Velvet Caught.
-]
-
-“I said at the beginning, dear Lady Yellow-paw, that this is a wonderful
-story. Let me tell you that the cats of that place do not wish to have
-tails. ‘Not _wish_ to have tails?’ cried Lady Yellow-paw and others at
-the famous party. No, your ladyship. But let us not be conceited and
-think our own ways are always the best. To be sure a tail does add to
-the good looks of a cat, still we all know that a tail _is_ a great
-care; always likely to get rocked on, or stepped on, or pulled, and is
-sometimes in the way when you want to sit down. That no-tailed cat made
-my tail a way of hurting me. All present must have seen that its tip is
-gone, though all have been so polite as to seem not to notice this. It
-was the doings of that jealous no-tailed cat. She was jealous because so
-much notice was taken of me. She could not bear me to come into the
-house. She clawed, and bit, and spit at me so that my mistress had to
-let me sleep in the room with herself and her little boy. One night I
-did what pleased my mistress very much. One night a mouse jumped on her
-boy’s bed, and waked him up, just as I used to wake up that girl when I
-had that bell on my neck. I caught this mouse, and found him quite as
-good as any in our own country. My mistress praised me more than ever,
-after this, and held me, and stroked me a great deal, but her doing so
-made that other cat maul me worse than ever, and I should have run away
-if my mistress herself had not come away. My mistress came to this
-country and brought me with her. Here I am, out of reach of that jealous
-cat’s teeth and claws. Here I am well-fed and tended. Here I live an
-easy life. Yet still I am not happy. Would you know the reason why? My
-mistress has another cat, a partly white cat. People call her a
-beautiful cat. So she may be to any one who fancies white paws and white
-noses. I do not like to see my mistress hold that cat and stroke her. I
-am obliged to see it. I am obliged to see the boy like that cat; hug
-that cat; I am even obliged to see her allowed to jump up and eat milk
-from the same bowl with him, something _I_ have never been allowed to
-do!
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Something Black Velvet Was Never, Never Allowed to Do.
-]
-
-“All this is hard to bear. I do not like to think about it, and to keep
-myself from thinking about it I employ myself in teaching the way of
-opening doors. Every cat should know how to open doors. There may be
-times in a cat’s life when she may save her life by knowing how to open
-a door. There are times in every cat’s life when she may get food by
-opening a door.
-
-“Here a number of cats sprang to their feet and began to tell of
-particular times when they had saved themselves and got food by knowing
-how to open doors. Among them was the cat that hadn’t common sense. ‘One
-at a time, my dears,’ said Lady Yellow-paw. ‘Snowball, will you begin?’”
-
-                  *       *       *       *       *
-
-“But I humbly beg your Majesty’s pardon,” said the lovely Pussyanita to
-the King. “The particular times when all these saved themselves or got
-food by knowing how to open doors were not in Black Velvet’s story. You
-asked, oh King, for Black Velvet’s story. That is ended, I am silent.”
-
-“You shall not be silent!” thundered King Grimalkum. “Speak! As king of
-all the cats, I wish particularly to know the particular times when all
-those saved themselves and got food by knowing how to open doors. As
-king of all the cats, I should be well informed on all such matters.”
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  She Used to Sit on a High Wall.
-]
-
-“To tell you what you ask,” answered the lovely Pussyanita, “would take
-a longer time than I have to live.”
-
-“Time shall be granted you,” said the king. “Begin without delay to tell
-what Snowball told.”
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  What Snowball Told.
-]
-
-
-“When my sister Lily and myself were quite young, but not very, the
-people who lived in the house began to talk of drowning us. Now all
-present at this famous party will agree with me that if we are to be
-drowned at all we should be drowned when we are too young to know
-anything about it. I suppose there is not one here present who would not
-rather have been drowned when she knew nothing about it, than to be
-drowned now.
-
-“When our mother heard drowning spoken of she took us under the barn,
-and there we stayed a long time. We lived under the barn. Our mother
-would not let us come out. She used to sit on a high wall and we wanted
-to, but she said dogs would get us and boys would scare us. A small boy
-used to come out there with his books and his slates and his other
-things, and this small boy crawled under the barn and found us and
-dragged us out, and then our mother moved back to the house to live. On
-the very day we moved back, I was put into a covered basket and sent
-away in a rattling thing called a carriage. The noise it made frightened
-me almost to death. I scratched the basket and clawed the cover, and
-stuck my paws through, and mewed and cried, for I was dreadfully
-frightened at the rattling! At last they put me in a house. I was afraid
-to stay in that house. Everything in that house was strange to me. The
-people were strangers. It seemed like a dreadful place. The people put
-their own things on all the good high places, and every time I jumped on
-a good high place, there would be a running and a screaming enough to
-scare you out of your senses. As if kittens would knock things off! As
-if kittens were clumsy as people and could not walk _between_ things!
-You know kittens, and cats too, need high places to jump up to.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Just Right to Spring At.
-]
-
-“There was a small boy in the house and he had a whip. I need say no
-more. You all know or can understand, what it is to live in the house
-with a boy and a whip. But I was going to say that even the oldest of us
-have been kittens once and we know that a kitten must spring at things
-a-moving. I did. The boy rode on a wooden horse, and the horse had a
-tail just right to spring at. It was placed behind the boy so that he
-could not see me. But the people could, and they punished me for doing
-what I could not help doing. A kitten would not be a kitten did it hold
-back from springing at such a beautiful tail a-moving.
-
-“I was whipped and put down cellar a great many times and even when I
-had grown quite large; for I was always of a lively turn.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Curled Up on the Best Rug.
-]
-
-“Oh what fun I had with the people after I learned to open the cellar
-door! Mornings they would say ‘I wonder who let the cat up?’ Sometimes
-just after I had been put down cellar for meddling with tassels or
-knitting work, they would find me on the best bed or in the best chair,
-or in the best room curled up on the best rug. At last these people took
-all their things and went away and left me there with nothing to eat.
-Every day I had to go forth to seek my food. Pinky-white has told you
-something of what this means. Hanging around back doors, kicked,
-starved, frozen, barked at by dogs, chased by cruel boys! Oh tongue
-cannot tell what I suffered from cruel boys! They yelled at me, they
-threw stones, they tormented me in every way they could. Just the sight
-of one would make me tremble. One day when I was on a clothes-pole I saw
-two boys coming, far away. They yelled at me and picked up stones. I
-scrambled down. I ran toward the house. I heard their shouts. I ran to
-the back door. The door was shut. I sprang up, caught the latch, the
-door opened, I ran in to a woman, looked in her face and said, ‘Oh do
-take care of me!’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Rat Family.
-]
-
-“The woman was so much pleased with my opening the door that she invited
-me to live in that house, and I was glad enough to stay for there is a
-meat-shop in the house. I have lived there a very long time. I make
-myself useful by driving off cats and dogs that come to steal meat. Of
-course I never steal. I do not need to. I am fed so well that I never
-know what it is to be hungry, and have no wish for mouse-meat or
-rat-meat. In fact the rats and I are such friends, I sit near them in
-the garret and watch their goings on in their families, and they never
-mind me at all.
-
-“My good fortune came from knowing how to open doors. I will say no
-more, for I know the company wish to hear Madame Pussy Hunter’s story.”
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Madame Pussy Hunter’s Story.
-]
-
-
-“I am chiefly an out-doors cat. I like to catch moles and field-mice and
-rabbits, and bugs, and butterflies. I like butterflies almost as well as
-Pussy Gray did. Poor Pussy Gray who was stung in the eye by a bumble-bee
-while watching for butterflies and went crazy! I am fond of birds too.
-
-“In this I am different from the renowned Tabby Furpurr, who found out a
-way of not liking birds, and on that account had her picture taken and
-put in a frame!
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Just Dropping Off to Sleep.
-]
-
-“I was always a butterfly hunter, but not always a mole hunter, a
-field-mouse hunter and rabbit hunter. I will tell you how I happened to
-become a mole hunter, a field-mouse hunter, and a rabbit hunter.
-
-“One day I went out among some tall flower stalks to catch butterflies,
-and got very tired of jumping, and lay down to take a nap under the
-flower stalks. I was just dropping off to sleep when I heard a noise and
-looked up and saw my sister coming. She asked me to go to her house and
-get some cream. She knew where there was a good deal of cream in a good
-place. She wanted me to open the pantry door. As my sister was anxious
-for me to go, I went, and we both enjoyed a hearty meal. We crept out of
-the pantry and then softly under chairs and tables to the passage-way.
-In that passage-way was my sister’s kitten playing with a ball of yarn.
-She pawed it, and clawed it, and pushed it, and tumbled heels over head
-over it, as kittens will do—ah, we were all kittens once! and at last
-she pushed it into a room. We peeped in at the door and saw the kitten
-leave the ball suddenly, and pop behind the screen. Her tail was very
-big, and her back was up, so we knew something had frightened her, and
-crept in to see what had frightened her. In the middle of the room was a
-great chair, and from that chair was something hanging down, something
-furry. We went near to see what it could be. It looked like a dog’s head
-upside down. It was a dog’s head upside down. Cats that have always seen
-dogs’ heads upside up, have no idea how a dog’s head looks upside down.
-This dog’s head was upside down and the whole dog was upside down;
-upside down and asleep.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Dog That Was Upside Down.
-]
-
-“Both our tails began to grow big. We left the room quickly, and softly
-as possible, and ran through a long passage, then up-stairs, then
-through another long passage, and _then_ we heard the dog coming,
-barking! We ran faster. We knew he was on the stairs; knew he was after
-us. We got to the end of a long passage. The bark of the dog sounded
-nearer and nearer. There was no way out of the passage. Oh what a moment
-that was! I saw a door. I sprang up twice, and opened it the second time
-trying. I tremble, even now, to think what might have become of us had
-not a window of that room been open, or had I not known how to open a
-door. We darted through that window, and went down by a water-spout. The
-dog looked out and turned and ran down-stairs, but by the time he was in
-the yard we were safe on a shed. Oh how thankful we ought to be that
-dogs cannot climb!
-
-“I was saved, but in my haste I trod on a tack nail, and it stuck in my
-paw and made my paw in great pain. I went limping, and the pain of the
-paw made me sick. My dear mistress! How good she was to me! She took out
-the nail and bound up the sore place, and fed me with warm sweetened
-milk and water, or if I was thirsty, gave me cool, clear water to lap,
-and held me, and made for me a soft bed, and talked to me, and _poored_
-me. Oh how pleasant it is to be talked to and _poored_!
-
-“I felt so grateful to my dear mistress that as soon as I was well I
-went out to catch everything I could for her—rabbits, moles, field-mice.
-That was why I became a hunter. Everything I could I brought in and laid
-at her feet, because I wanted to please her. I would not eat one of them
-until she told me I might. I never ate even a mouse until I had shown it
-to her. Sometimes I bring birds. She is not pleased with me, then. She
-scolds me when I bring birds. I don’t know why she scolds me for
-bringing birds. I should like to know the renowned Tabby Furpurr way of
-not liking birds.”
-
-Scarcely had Madame Pussy Hunter finished when up sprang a Spry White
-Kitten and hopped out on three paws, and said: ‘_I_ can tell a story of
-a door opening.’ Some of the older ones tried to hiss her down. She was
-asked if her story would tell how she lost her right fore paw. Upon
-learning that her story would tell how she lost her right fore paw, they
-asked to hear what the Spry White Kitten had to say.
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Spry White Kitten’s Story.
-]
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“It is a short story that I am going to tell, but I wish to tell it. I
-wish to say that for my part I have never found any good come from
-knowing how to open doors. Not that I know how, but my mother does. She
-opened a door the other day to show me some cream. It was butter-cream
-streaming down a butter-churn. She told me to jump up and lick, and I
-did, and a man came and boxed my ears and I have not heard well since.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“Another time to please me, she opened a door and let me into a large
-dining-room that had long curtains just right to scratch and to climb up
-by, and a funny old feather hung over a funny old clock. I could go up
-on those good curtains, and jump to the clock and play with the feather.
-And one day I meddled with the clock to find out where its noise came
-from, and was caught and got the worst whipping I’ve ever had yet.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Cat With Her Ears Tied Up.
-]
-
-“Then here is my brother Bobby hiding yonder behind Black Velvet. Why
-does he hide? His ears are tied up with strings. Bobby likes
-work-baskets. He teased our mother to let him into a room where there
-was a work-basket. He played in it, and the girl tied his ears with
-strings, and he ran round, and rolled, and could not get them off, and
-ran into a coal-hole, and stayed till he was very hungry, and when he
-went into the house he went to a boy that was sitting on the floor
-eating milk. That boy did not give him any milk. No. He took a great
-cloth and tried to wash Bobby’s paws in the milk! Bobby got away, and
-now he has come to this famous party with his ears in strings. A pretty
-state he is in to come to a famous party! We all know how dreadful it is
-to have our ears meddled with.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  It Got Hold of My Leg.
-]
-
-“But all this is nothing to what happened afterwards. My mother opened a
-door to let me into a room where there was a mouse-hole. Now a boy had
-put in that room a curious thing. I went close up to it to see what it
-was. It was a crab, but I did not know that. I was young. I never had
-seen a crab. I touched it to find what it was made of, and it got hold
-of my leg just above my paw. I never screamed so in all my life. Oh how
-I did scream! And no wonder. My leg was broke. My paw had to be taken
-off, and now I have to be three-pawed. Now I have to go limp, limp,
-hopperty limp! Only three paws to run away from cruel boys with, and
-barking dogs! Only three paws to climb with! Only three paws to claw
-with! No; as for me, _I_ have never seen much good come from knowing how
-to open doors!”
-
-“‘You had better sit down, Miss,’ exclaimed Black Velvet. ‘Young people
-should be seen and not heard. We are speaking at this famous party of
-the good of knowing how to open doors—not of the bad. Mrs. Beulah Black
-is present, and has something to relate which all will like to hear.’”
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Mrs. Beulah Black’s Story.
-]
-
-
-“In me, my dear Lady Yellow-paw, you see a child of the unfortunate
-Pussy Gray who when watching for butterflies was stung in the eye by a
-bumble-bee and went crazy, and ran away. There were three of us born on
-the same day, namely: Lily, Dinah Dusky and myself, Beulah Black. Pussy
-Gray was one of the best of mothers. She herself cared neither for rats,
-mice, nor moles. She liked birds and bugs and was very fond of
-butterflies. But she would sit long watching at a hole to catch mice or
-moles for us, and then she would bring them to us, and show us how to
-play with them, and stand looking at us in her motherly way. She grew
-thin from staying in to take care of us. We were a quarrelsome set.
-
-“I don’t know what became of Lily, but Dinah Dusky went when she was
-very young to live in a corn store. I stayed at a house nearer my
-mother’s house, and it was well that I did, for at the time she got
-stung in the eye by a bumble-bee, she had another young family, and I
-was able to go in and take care of them, and to punish them when they
-needed punishment. I was then a mother myself with my first little brood
-around me.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“I remember the day well. My mother left the family and went into the
-garden to catch butterflies. If she did not see any butterflies it was
-her custom to stand still and listen for the sound of their wings. She
-was doing so when that sad thing happened to her. My sister, Dinah
-Dusky, had come that day to see my dear little beauties and we two went
-out together to catch bugs for them. Our mother was in the garden not
-far from us. She stood stock still. She had heard the sound of a
-butterfly’s wings. An instant more and she would have turned her head.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“Then it was that the bumble-bee stung her eye. She ran. We ran. We
-could not catch her. We could not think what made her behave so. She ran
-this way and that way, over fences, back again, through bushes, over
-bushes, across fields, and at last away she went out of sight and was
-never heard from afterwards. Every day my sister Dinah Dusky and I went
-forth to look for our mother, hoping to bring her home to her young
-family.
-
-“It was when we had been in the fields looking for her that we saved
-ourselves by my sister’s quickness in opening a door. I will explain how
-this happened.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Cat That Was Stealing Milk.
-]
-
-“My sister and I went into a swamp to look for our mother, and we caught
-sight of a rabbit there. We lay down close to the ground, and crept,
-crept, crept, softly along, not making a bit of noise. Sometimes we
-stopped creeping; then we crept; then we stopped; then we crept, getting
-all the time nearer and nearer. The rabbit was asleep part way under a
-log. We had crept very near when all at once we heard the bark of a dog.
-Dreadful sound! In an instant we were on our feet and running. We ran
-towards a house. At first the dog did not see us. Then he saw us and ran
-after us, barking. Oh how frightened we were! We ran faster but he ran
-faster than we. He came near us, barking, barking, barking, oh it was
-terrible! For he came so close to me that I felt his breath. He caught
-me by the back of the neck, and just then a boy called him off, and he
-dropped me and went to the boy. I ran on. My sister had gone far ahead.
-We ran towards the back of the house. The dog came again. We heard him
-coming afar off. He would not stay with the boy. I almost died with
-fright. There wasn’t a tree nor a clothes-pole near. But there was a
-door that my sister had opened before at times when it was necessary
-that she should get something to eat without being seen. She opened this
-door now, and frightened a cat that was there stealing milk out of a
-pitcher, and made her tip over the pitcher.
-
-“We went in and ran through a back shed to the barn. I sprang up on a
-hay rack, and my sister—all at this famous party will be surprised to
-hear what my sister did. My sister sprang up on the horse’s back!
-
-“We were not a minute too quick. We just saved ourselves. The dog was
-close behind. But he could not get at us and he had to go away.
-
-“I have more to tell. That horse and my sister became friends. When he
-stayed in the barn she used to stay on his back. He liked to have her
-stay there. He could not bear to be without her. He was not easy unless
-she came and stayed on his back.
-
-“The man said it would not do. He said it would hurt the horse and they
-carried him far away.
-
-“Now comes the sorrowful part. My sister mourned so for the horse that
-she would not eat. She would only lap a little water sometimes. She grew
-weak and thin. She did not clean her fur. She would stay in the barn and
-lie down on the spot where the horse used to stand. At last she was seen
-no more and after a long time she was found, dead, high up on a haymow
-in a far corner!
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  My Sister Sprang Up on the Horse’s Back!
-]
-
-“This is all I have to say, your ladyship, but my younger brother David
-is here. Though now bigger than I, he was once smaller. He was one of
-the young kittens our mother left when she went out to catch butterflies
-and was stung in the eye by a bumble-bee. David will tell you of a time
-when he opened a door and ran away, and why he ran away.”
-
-All present said they would like to hear David’s Story, and he began as
-follows:
-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  David’s Story.
-]
-
-
-“I was one of the young kittens Pussy Gray left when she went out to
-catch butterflies. My sister Beulah Black has told you what happened to
-Pussy Gray, how she went crazy and went nobody knew where, and was never
-heard from afterwards.
-
-“My Sister Beulah Black had a young family of her own, and one day she
-tried to carry us to her house, in order that she might not have to be
-all the time running back and forth. It happened that I dropped into a
-hole, and she could not get me out. She had to leave me. Now this was
-lucky for me, for the others of my mother’s young family, and all but
-one of my sister Beulah Black’s young family were sent away and lost. I
-have often wondered why it is that so many little kittens are sent away
-and lost.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  She Took Turns Rocking Me and Her Dolly.
-]
-
-“Only for falling in that hole I might not be here. But I came near
-dying there. When taken out I was almost starved to death. I could not
-move; I could not make a sound. Girl-Nellie took me out and kept me for
-her own. She made me a cotton-wool bed in a cricket, she covered me over
-with silk, she fed me with a spoon, she held me just as if I had been a
-baby. And when I grew larger she used to rock me in the baby’s cradle
-and sing to me. She took turns rocking me and her dolly, and when dolly
-was being rocked I sat and waited for my turn to be rocked and sung to.
-Oh, how I did love my little mistress! I wanted to sit on her lap. I
-wanted to be with her a great deal. I told her all this, though perhaps
-she never understood what I said. I knew the time for her to come home
-from school, and went always to meet her. She did not know how I knew
-the time. People do not know how cats know things. My dear mistress
-would not let boy-John torment me. Boy-John was not cruel, but he wished
-me to sit up on my hind legs, and to hold a stick, and to jump through a
-hoop. It was easy enough to do such things but I did not like to do
-them. Boy-John used to say to the baby, ‘Come Baby, bring David!’ I was
-so big then that baby could hardly lift me, but he would drag me, and
-push me, and try to lift me.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Could Hardly Lift Me.
-]
-
-“Many at this famous party have spoken of what they have suffered from
-cruel boys and from dogs, but nobody as yet has spoken of a baby. Tongue
-cannot tell what I suffered from that baby. A baby will step on any part
-of a cat. A baby will sit on a cat. A baby does not mind what part of a
-cat it lifts up a cat by, whether by the tail or by a leg, or by the
-head. A baby will pull your ears, will stick its finger in your eyes,
-will even meddle with your smellers, and you must keep from touching it,
-because it is a baby.
-
-“I never did touch that baby to hurt it. I loved that baby. I kept my
-claws way in out of sight, and if I ever squealed it was sometimes when
-he sat down on me hard, and squelched the squeal out of me before I knew
-it.
-
-“I come now to something painful to speak of. You will be surprised to
-learn that I ran away from that dear Nellie mistress. This will now be
-explained.
-
-“Unhappily for me, I had great skill in charming birds, and I was as
-fond of birds as my mother Pussy Gray was of butterflies. I mean I was
-fond of them as food, not as friends. There was no cat anywhere around
-that could charm a bird as well as I could. I used to stay under a tree
-and when a bird came and sat on a bough I would look straight up at him,
-and then he could not fly away. He would cry, and flutter his wings, but
-he could not fly away. He would have to drop.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Dropped the Bird.
-]
-
-“I used to carry the birds to my dear mistress, for I wanted to please
-her, and birds were the best things I could get. But she was not
-pleased; she scolded me. I could not understand why she praised me for
-catching a mouse and scolded me for catching a bird. A bird is better
-than a mouse. Pretty soon she began to do something besides to scold. I
-was punished in the way cats are punished. I need not tell. All at this
-famous party know. After I had been punished a great deal I kept away
-from trees. But one day I was in a window-seat, asleep. The window was
-swung open, and I lay there to enjoy the sunshine and fell asleep. The
-noise of a bird woke me. I stretched myself out flat and looked up. The
-bird was on a high window above. When I had looked at it a little while
-it began to cry, and then it flew down to the top of the window that was
-swung open. It flew lower and lower, and I made a spring and caught it.
-My mistress came in and I dropped the bird on the window-seat, and
-jumped down and crept away. I felt so ashamed I did not know what to do.
-
-“I was not whipped, but I was punished. I punished myself. I left that
-pleasant home and my dear mistress. You will understand why when I
-explain.
-
-“That night my mistress’ mother said, ‘We cannot have David killing so
-many birds. Something must be done with him. I will get a boy to do
-something with him early in the morning.’ I knew what she said. I did
-not know by the way people know. I knew by the cat-way of knowing, and
-not by the people-way. All present at this famous party know how cats
-know what people say. I understood what my mistress said, but I kept
-still under a table, and when nobody was looking I crept under the
-chairs out into the back room, and opened two doors and ran away, far
-away, and for a long time I lived the dreadful life of a cat without a
-home.
-
-“One day a man invited me to go home with him. He keeps a store. There
-are herring and eggs in the store. I have lived there quite a long time.
-I want to go back to my dear mistress, but I am afraid they will get a
-boy to do something with me. I like to suck eggs, though as my master
-keeps a stick I do not take any except the broken ones he gives me. When
-I tease for herring he gives me a piece. I watch people and if they
-touch anything that belongs to my master I lay my paw on them and speak.
-
-“Scarcely had David finished when out popped two gray little kittens,
-twins, both named Kittywinks, saying:
-
-“‘We are the Kittywinkses, and we’ve come to this famous party.’
-
-“Lady Yellow-paw waved her paw and said: ‘One Kittywinks at a time, my
-dears.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Good Child-Baby.
-]
-
-“One Kittywinks then said: ‘David talked about a child-baby. Call bad.
-Child-baby not bad. We’ve got a child-baby. He does not step on us. He
-does not sit down on us. He does not squelch us. He does not hurt. He
-touches us softly. He would never tie strings on our ears. He poors us,
-and strokes us, and lets us sit on chairs and sofas with him, and crawl
-all over him, and play with his curls, and play with his beads, and play
-with his playthings. He likes us, only he does not like to have us kiss
-him with our noses, but with our mouths, but we don’t know how to kiss
-with our mouths, and we have to kiss with our noses.’
-
-“And the Kittywinkses capered back to their places.
-
-“All present at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party were pleased with the
-Kittywinkses, and no wonder, for they were a merry pair of twins, and
-not much like the sour faced ones, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, called in
-the story, _Dum_ and _Dee_.”
-
-                  *       *       *       *       *
-
-“What story?” cried King Grimalkum in a stern voice.
-
-“The story of the renowned Tabby Furpurr,” answered the lovely
-Pussyanita. “Tabby Furpurr who found out a way of not liking birds, and
-had her picture taken and set in a frame.”
-
-“I wish to hear the story,” cried the King. “Tell it.”
-
-“With pleasure, your majesty,” replied the lovely Pussyanita, “but to do
-so will take a longer time than I have to live.”
-
-“Time shall be granted you,” answered the king. “Tell all you ever heard
-of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and of the renowned Tabby Furpurr.”
-
-The lovely Pussyanita bowed and began to tell all she had ever heard of
-Tweedledum and Tweedledee and of the renowned Tabby Furpurr.
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
-]
-
-
-“In the days when Mouseroun al Ratchid was King of all the Cats, it was
-his custom to disguise himself in mealbag powder and walk about the
-country to see what he could see, and see it without being known.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Good-Kind Boy.
-]
-
-“One cloudy morning soon before a storm—the time when our race are
-liveliest—Mouseroun called Phi, his wisdom cat, and the two set forth
-upon their travels. After proceeding quite a distance they came in sight
-of a small boy with a porridge pot, sitting under a tree, eating
-porridge. A white cat close to his feet begged for the porridge, and a
-big dog stood by and licked the boy’s face and begged for porridge, and
-put his nose in the boy’s bread-bag.
-
-“‘Of what kind is the boy?’ asked Mouseroun of Phi.
-
-“‘Of the good kind,’ replied Phi.
-
-“‘How knowest thou that, oh Phi?’
-
-“‘Because the dog and cat come close and show no fear. They ask for
-food, sure of getting it.’
-
-“‘Tell me, oh learned Phi, why a boy has long claws only on his fore
-legs.’
-
-“‘Because his hind legs are for walking and standing,’ replied Phi; ‘and
-for walking and standing, short claws are better than long claws.’
-
-“‘Tell me further,’ inquired Mouseroun, ‘why a cat mews and a dog
-barks.’
-
-“‘For the same reason that a cow moos and a horse neighs, and a pig
-squeals, and a bird sings, and a frog croaks, and people speak,’
-answered Phi. ‘Of course all these would mew if they could, but as they
-cannot mew they must do what they can do.’
-
-“‘And why, oh Phi, are some cats born white, and others black, and
-others gray, and others of divers colors?’
-
-“‘Because,’ answered Phi, ‘it takes all kinds of cats to make a world.’
-
-“Just at this moment a young black-and-white cat came up and began
-spitting at the dog, and clawing the cat, and biting the boy’s toes.
-When the dog growled, the cross cat ran out of sight.
-
-“‘Shall we go on and observe what that ill behaved creature will do
-next?’ asked Phi.
-
-“‘By all means,’ answered Mouseroun, ‘but look where at yonder window a
-ribboned white cat sits stiff and straight, gazing at something afar.
-Let us hasten thither.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Cupep the Careful.
-]
-
-“They hastened, and when they reached the window Mouseroun asked of the
-ribboned white cat: ‘Oh, ribboned white cat, sitting stiff and straight
-gazing at something afar, at what art thou gazing, and what is thy
-name?’
-
-“‘I am gazing at flies,’ answered the ribboned white cat, ‘and I am
-called Cupep the Careful.’
-
-“Mouseroun made a sign to Phi to ask of the ribboned white cat why he
-was called Cupep the Careful. Phi did so.
-
-“‘Because I can be trusted,’ replied the ribboned white cat to Phi, ‘and
-trusted in any place, among china, glass, pictures, bottles, papers, no
-matter how high the shelf, how narrow, or how full. I step in and out so
-carefully that no harm is ever done. Nobody minds even if I step on the
-baby’s face. You see I am allowed here with papers and a bottle and
-feather, easy to upset. All this is why I am called Cupep the Careful. I
-shall presently sit on the paper, and to sit on paper is pleasant.’
-
-“As Cupep the Careful finished telling why he was called Cupep the
-Careful, Mouseroun drew Phi’s attention to two dark objects sitting in a
-barn at some distance. Bidding Cupep the Careful good morning they went
-towards the barn and found that the two dark objects were two
-black-and-white young cats. Said Phi, ‘These must be the sour faced
-twins, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, called _Dum_ and _Dee_. I have often
-heard of them, but never any good.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
-]
-
-“They went nearer. The sour faced twins sat side by side looking cross
-and unhappy. Mouseroun motioned to Phi to address them.
-
-“‘Are you not the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee, called _Dum_ and
-_Dee_?’ asked Phi, ‘and is it not one of you which shortly ago bit the
-toes of a boy, and spit at his dog, and clawed his cat?’
-
-“‘It was I,’ said Tweedledee, ‘who did that. I could not maul Cupep the
-Careful and I meant to maul somebody. I will maul him if I can. The
-stuck-up thing! Everybody praises him. He has a watch to wear. Nobody
-praises me and I have not even a ribbon. He has had his picture taken
-and hung up. Why don’t they take my picture?’
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“‘They’d much better take mine,’ snarled Tweedledum. ‘I’ve been crying
-to have my picture taken ever since I saw that one of Tabby Furpurr who
-found out a way of not liking birds, and on that account had her picture
-taken and set in a pussy willow frame. They won’t take my picture. But
-I’ll be even with them. I get hold of the clock strings, I tangle yarn,
-I won’t purr, I climb posts and tear down the flowers, I scratch the
-baby’s face, I pull away his playthings, I wait on the doorstep and bite
-his fingers, when he tries to reach me, and I kill birds. _I’m_ not
-going to find a way of not liking birds if they won’t have my picture
-taken! I am better looking than Tabby Furpurr; I’m sweet and lovely.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Bite the Baby’s Fingers.
-]
-
-“‘I am sweet and lovely myself,’ said _Dee_.
-
-“‘You’re not!’ said _Dum_.
-
-“‘I am?’ said _Dee_.
-
-“‘Say it again!’ said _Dum_.
-
-“‘I do say it again!’ said _Dee_.
-
-“‘Take that!’ said _Dum_.
-
-“‘Take that!’ said Dee. And the two seemed as if they would tear each
-other’s eyes out, so that Mouseroun was wroth, and Phi had much ado to
-keep him from punishing them both on the spot.
-
-“‘A future time is better,’ said Phi. ‘To act in anger is to make
-ourselves like these. Come, let us go and seek out the much renowned
-Tabby Furpurr who found out a way of not liking birds, and who on that
-account had her picture taken and set in a pussy-willow frame.’
-
-“Mouseroun and Phi pursued their journey, rambling hither and thither,
-listening to the speech of bees, flies, bugs, worms, toads and frogs,
-and to the butterflies’ happy hum, which is too faint to be heard by the
-clumsy ears of people—people who think they hear everything and hear so
-little!
-
-“‘Dost thou know,’ asked Mouseroun at last, ‘where dwelleth this
-renowned Tabby Furpurr?’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Tabby Furpurr.
-]
-
-“‘I have not that knowledge,’ replied Phi. ‘She must be now quite aged,
-and therefore well known hereabouts. Yonder is a young Persian, all so
-happy with her three kittens, as soft and white as herself. I will
-inquire of her concerning Tabby Furpurr.’ As they approached the young
-Persian, Phi inquired of her, ‘Dost thou know Mistress Tabby Furpurr,
-young Persian, and canst thou direct us to her abode?’
-
-“‘I know Mistress Furpurr well enough,’ said the young Persian, ‘but I
-decline to direct you to her abode. It is too much trouble.’
-
-“‘We are anxious to find her,’ said Phi, ‘and we are weary with travel.’
-
-“‘No doubt,’ replied the Persian; ‘but I prefer to stay and enjoy the
-company of my children.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Happy Young Persian.
-]
-
-“‘And wilt thou not direct us?’ asked Phi.
-
-“Answered the young Persian, ‘I have said what I have said.’
-
-“‘Good day, then,’ said Phi, and he drew Mouseroun away, fearing he
-might do something rash.
-
-“‘Canst thou explain,’ asked Mouseroun of Phi as they journeyed on, ‘why
-the young Persian should refuse to please others when she is herself so
-happy?’
-
-“‘The most happy are often the most selfish,’ replied Phi. ‘Those who
-have known unhappiness are likely to feel pity.’
-
-“A little farther on they looked in at a great stone doorway and there
-they spied a rat which had hidden in a dark corner to eat a head of
-wheat. ‘Rats are wise,’ said Phi, ‘perhaps yonder fellow may direct us
-to Mistress Tabby Furpurr.’
-
-“But as they drew near to inquire of the rat, he dropped his wheat and
-fled.
-
-“‘Now, why was that?’ asked Mouseroun. ‘We meant him no harm.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Rat.
-]
-
-“‘A rat,’ said Phi, ‘must judge by what has been done, not by what is
-meant. After all that has been done by cats to rats, it will take a long
-time to make rats believe that cats mean rats no harm.
-
-“‘I fear we shall not get any rat to direct us to the abode of Mistress
-Furpurr.’
-
-“Phi was mistaken. Soon after, in passing a barn they heard much stir
-and scampering inside. ‘Wherever there is a stir and a scampering,’ said
-Phi, ‘we may be sure there is something going on inside.’
-
-“Mouseroun was eager to enter, but Phi held him back lest harm might
-befall him and himself stepped forward.
-
-“‘Rats,’ he whispered, as he stepped back.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Taken in a Trap.
-]
-
-“There were six rats inside the barn; a father, mother and four children
-had come to visit one of the family that had been taken in a trap. The
-mother looked in at the front of the cage, the father looked down from
-over the top. As Mouseroun and Phi drew near, the father, mother and
-four children fled to their holes.
-
-“The rat in the cage when questioned by Phi, said he had been told by
-his parents not to go in, but he thought he knew best, and he did not
-believe the trap would shut down so quick.
-
-“Did he know where Mistress Tabby Furpurr lived? and would he tell?
-
-“Oh yes, he had reasons for knowing where Mistress Tabby Furpurr lived,
-and he would tell, and he did tell and with a kind good day, Mouseroun
-and Phi passed on their way.
-
-“‘I observed,’ said Mouseroun to Phi, as they passed on their way, ‘that
-the rat in the trap showed no fear of us. How was that?’
-
-“‘It must have been,’ said Phi, ‘that he knew we could not get at him.’
-
-“‘True,’ said Mouseroun. ‘Thou art truly a Cat of Wisdom.’”
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  We Went Back.
-]
-
-Not very long after this, Mouseroun and Phi reached the abode of the
-renowned Tabby Furpurr and heard the story of her life.
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Story of Mistress Tabby Furpurr.
-]
-
-
-“I was one of two kittens born in a respectable corner of a garret. My
-twin sister was sickly and died at an early age, and my mother, being
-lonely, stole a black kitten from another cat. The black kitten’s mother
-came to get her, but my mother was big and strong and with the help of
-my two older sisters she drove away the black kitten’s mother and kept
-the black kitten.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Black Kitten.
-]
-
-“I did not like that black kitten. She was coarse-haired, she bit my
-tail, and when I had spools, or marbles, or knitting-work to play with,
-she got them away from me.
-
-“One day when she bit my tail I flew at her throat and gave it a bad
-bite and made it bleed. I never saw her afterwards. I did not know what
-became of her but I never saw her afterwards, except in dreams. I had
-dreadful dreams. Once I dreamed I saw her sitting over the fireplace,
-holding her paw to her throat, and next time I dreamed she came close to
-me with her mouth and eyes wide open and glared at me.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  First Dream.
-]
-
-“My older sisters grew so large that the people thought they would send
-me and my mother away. They got us into a basket, and shut down the
-covers quick, and carried us very far. They thought my mother would
-never find the way back. My mother did. We got home at night, but my
-mother climbed up to the house top with me in her mouth and jumped
-through a window that she knew in the roof and in the morning they found
-us on the rug.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Second Dream.
-]
-
-“Not long after this my mother was shot for her beautiful skin. I was so
-lonely that I mourned very much. The dog took care of me. I did not
-think Nep would be so kind, for sometimes he had barked at me, but when
-he knew I was sorry and lonesome he asked me to snuggle close to him and
-if any people touched me he drove them away.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Scamper Up and Down His Big Sides and Tickle His Paws, and His Nose.
-]
-
-“When my older sisters saw me with Nep they wanted to come and he let
-them come. We warmed our feet in his hair. My sisters were too lazy to
-play, but one of them used to catch fleas in his hair. I did not like to
-catch fleas. I liked to scamper up and down his big sides and tickle his
-paws, and his nose. He used to give me some of his meat. He did not give
-my sisters any. I will now explain why I left Nep and that house.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-A pretty-faced white kitten used to come and play with me sometimes. One
-day when I was asleep on the door-mat, I was waked by a small noise and
-there was the white kitten’s face looking in at the door. She wanted me
-to go and see two rats. She said two rats went every day to a place to
-sit in the sun and we could stay behind a rock and peep at them.
-
-“I went with her to see the rats. They were too big for us to meddle
-with, but we could peep at them.
-
-“The white kitten liked to frolic and we raced over the fields and on
-the fences as much as we wanted to.
-
-“All at once we heard a noise. People came. The white kitten got away
-but a man caught me, and carried me in some whistling cars to his home.
-He wanted to keep me. I was afraid to stay in that strange place and I
-squeezed out through a hole in the cellar.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Two Rats in the Sun.
-]
-
-“Then something dreadful happened. I was chased by boys. They were
-dreadful boys. They hurt me. They made me tremble. They did things too
-cruel to mention.
-
-“They set a dog on me. I could hardly move, I trembled so. I crept under
-a rail and the dog stayed there, barking. I thought he would seize me,
-but before he did it a boy came and took me and treated me kindly, and
-carried me in his arms to his own home and took care of me.
-
-“Oh how I did love that boy! I wanted to stay with him all the time.
-
-“Every day when he went to school he let me go with him as far as the
-bridge.
-
-“Then I would look up in his face and mew, ‘Mayn’t I go further?’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Boy That Treated Me Kindly.
-]
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  He Nibbles the Pink.
-]
-
-“He would lift up his finger and say, ‘No, Tabby Furpurr. Go back!’ And
-I always went back. But when it was time for him to come home I went to
-the bridge and waited till he came and then went to the house with him.
-The boy’s dog did not like to have the boy like me so much. He was not
-so good as Nep. He would not let me warm my feet in his hair. He looked
-at me when I stole cream or custard. If they caught me stealing cream or
-custard, I hung my tail and went over to the grandma house to stay. When
-grandma caught me stealing I hung my tail and went back to the boy’s
-house to stay. A girl lived in the boy’s house, and she tamed a mouse.
-It stayed in a box. One day the boy looked at me hard, and lifted up his
-finger and said, ‘Tabby Furpurr, you have had enough to eat. This mouse
-is not for you. I am going to let this mouse out. Don’t you touch this
-mouse. Do you hear? _Don’t you touch it!_’
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“I knew what he said, and I never did touch that mouse. The girl played
-with it and let it stay in her work-basket. It liked to nibble green
-things that were brought into the house.
-
-“One day it got at a flower that the girl put in water and hung up, and
-it nibbled the flower. One day it was nibbling something green and it
-knocked over the thing the green was in and spilt the water on me and
-scared me, and made me jump, though I was quite an old cat then, and
-could not jump as spry as a kitten.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“It was at this time that I had my fight with a woods cat. She came to
-our barn. I never saw her before. I went to the barn to get some catnip.
-There was catnip among the hay, and when I felt that I needed catnip I
-went and picked it out of the hay. That woods cat came to get some of
-the catnip, but she had no right there. It was in a place under the
-haymow and a great deal of the catnip hay was there. The woods cat was
-sitting on it, pawing it with her paw.
-
-“She flew at me, and we had a fight. She would have killed me if the
-girl had not come with a broom.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“I was a bad looking cat. I went lame and had salve on me. The girl took
-care of me, and as soon as I could walk she let me go in the garden with
-her when she picked flowers. I liked to go into the garden. She used to
-sit under a tree and read a book, and I used to sit on the seat close to
-her, and if she stroked me I purred loud.
-
-“But she found out I liked birds. She saw me under a currant-bush eating
-a bird, and whipped me with a stick and said, ‘Shame, Tabby Furpurr!
-Shame on you to eat a little bird!’ And I went to the grandma house to
-stay.
-
-“A bird came to live in our house. It lived in a cage high on the wall.
-The boy showed me the bird and looked at me hard, and lifted up his
-finger and said, ‘Tabby Furpurr, don’t you touch that bird. That bird is
-not for you. _Don’t you touch that bird!_‘
-
-“I did not mean to do anything to that bird. But it kept moving and
-hopping, and shaking its wings, and shaking its tail, and it made me
-look at it; and one day when it shook itself very much I looked at it a
-long time and at last I jumped at it. Before I knew what I was going to
-do I jumped at it, and the cage fell down. I could not get the bird. He
-kept himself in a corner.
-
-“The boy’s dog barked and ran to tell the people something was the
-matter, and they all came and spoke loud and held up their fingers and
-cried ‘Shame! Shame!’
-
-“I went over to the grandma house and hid under a bed and stayed till I
-was almost starved. Then I crawled out and put my paw on grandma’s foot,
-and looked up in her face and she gave me some milk, and let me warm me
-at her fire.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Rat That Fought the Duck.
-]
-
-“Something happened to her duck. It let its little ducks go with it
-under the bridge to the pond, and it got itself killed. There was a rat
-there, and it was going to get one of her little ducks, and she began to
-fight the rat, and the mother rat came out and helped fight the duck,
-and the boy drove them away, but afterwards the duck died and left the
-little ducks.
-
-“But grandma had a barn cat. She was not a Tabby. She was only a
-black-and-white cat, but she was a very good cat. She never would touch
-a bird or a chicken, and she never would suck an egg. She did not like
-me. She would not let me come in her barn. I did not let her come in my
-barn. She was a good cat for not liking birds.
-
-“The boy carried the little ducks to the barn and tried to make a hen
-that was there take care of them. She would not do that. She went and
-left them. She would not scratch up worms for them. The other ducks
-would not. They had to take care of their own children, and these little
-ducks stayed all alone by themselves, and cried for their mother.
-
-“Now that barn cat, though she was only a black and white cat and not a
-Tabby, sat down there with the little ducks and took care of them. Every
-day she went there and stayed with the ducks, and when they went into a
-puddle she mewed for them to come back.
-
-“When she sat taking care of the little ducks, people used to come and
-look at her. The first time she took care of them grandma’s dog barked
-at her. When grandma told him it was all right, and let him see her
-stroke the barn cat, he went away, but sometimes he came to look at that
-cat and the ducks to see if all was right. Sometimes the cat would spit
-at him. She would spit at anybody that touched one of her little ducks.
-When the little ducks went in wet places she took them by their necks
-and brought them out, and she carried them by their necks so much that
-they had crooked necks. One day a strange cat, a great white Tommy, came
-and looked in at the barn door when she was staying with the little
-ducks and she flew at him quick, and almost clawed his eyes out and he
-was glad to run.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“One day I wanted very much to taste of a little duck and I tried to get
-one, and I hurt its leg, and she clawed me and made me drop it, and
-grandma shamed me and I went back to the boy’s house and hid under a
-bed, and when I was almost starved I crawled out and the boy whipped me
-hard and carried me back to the grandma house, and into her barn, and
-showed me that barn cat with the little ducks, and lifted up his finger,
-and looked at me hard, and whipped me again and said: ‘Tabby Furpurr,
-don’t you see that barn cat staying with ducks and not eating any? And
-_you_ even fly at birds! Don’t you ever touch any kind of bird again. Do
-you hear? Find out a way of not liking birds. _Find out a way of not
-liking birds! Remember!_‘
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Duck’s Defender.
-]
-
-“I knew what he said, though not in the way people know. I knew by the
-cat-way. I remembered by the cat-way of remembering. I kept very still,
-I did not steal, and when they thought I was asleep I was finding out a
-way of not liking birds, and after I found it out I never touched a bird
-again, nor a duck, nor a chicken. I stayed with the girl under the tree
-and never touched a bird. I watched the bird in the cage when he hopped
-and shook his tail and did not jump at him, and I would not let any
-other cat touch a bird nor a duck nor a chicken.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  They Thought I Was Asleep.
-]
-
-“One day when some killed chickens were hanging up, a great Maltese cat
-came and looked at them and was going to jump for them but I spit at her
-and drove her away. The people were pleased with me all the time and the
-girl let me stay in the room when the bird’s cage-door was open and when
-he flew out; and more birds came there to live and the birds had little
-birds, and they grew big birds, and I was a friend to them, and the girl
-got a very big cage for all the birds and sometimes she let me stay in
-there with them and I did not touch one. They would stand on my head and
-walk on my fur, and I let them. The boy was pleased with me and the girl
-was pleased with me.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Going to Jump for Them.
-]
-
-“I am an old cat now; a very old cat. I do not care for balls, or
-spools, or marbles, or knitting-work, or tassels, or strings. I do not
-wish to jump high. I like to sit by the fire and feel the _warm_ all
-around me. You have heard my story!”
-
-“Mouseroun made a sign to Phi by which Phi understood that Mouseroun
-wished him to ask Mistress Tabby Furpurr the way she found out of not
-liking birds.
-
-“‘Excuse me to-day,’ replied Mistress Tabby Furpurr to Phi’s question.
-‘I am weary and must take my repose. Some other time I will tell.’
-
-“Soon after this Mouseroun and Phi went to a great Battle of the Cats
-and were long absent. Upon their return they set forth as before to
-travel about the country, and again sought out the abode of Mistress
-Tabby Furpurr.
-
-“As they journeyed on they were met by two lively young black-and-white
-cats, the same two they met before, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, called
-_Dum_ and _Dee_.
-
-“They were full of frolic and good-nature, tumbling over each other, and
-snatching at each other’s tails.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“‘Whither so fast?’ asked Phi of them as they met.
-
-“‘To catch some bugs for a cat with a large family of kittens,’ they
-said.
-
-“You are not as sour as you were,” said Phi.
-
-“‘Oh, no,’ said _Dum_ and _Dee_. ‘It is folly to be sour when sweet is
-better. We found that out.’
-
-“‘You might have your pictures taken now,’ said Phi.
-
-“‘We’re so happy we don’t care to,’ said _Dum_ and _Dee_. ‘Good day to
-you.’
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“‘Beware of guns,’ said a faint voice near by.
-
-“It was the faint voice of a feeble cat who had crept under a bush to
-die.
-
-“‘We’re not afraid,’ said _Dum_ and _Dee_. ‘We have our nine lives, you
-know.’
-
-“‘Go not quickly through them as I have done,’ said the feeble cat.
-‘Beware of dogs, beware of stones, beware of guns, beware of shutting
-up, beware of boys, beware of drowning, beware of hot water, beware of
-stepping on, beware of wet blacking-brushes.’
-
-“‘I have lived eight lives, and am now dying of a spot of blacking.’
-
-“‘Tell us about the eight lives,’ said _Dum_ and _Dee_; and at a sign
-from Mouseroun, Phi made the same request.
-
-“‘I will try,’ replied the feeble cat, ‘if you will bear with my
-weakness.’”
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Story of the Feeble Cat and Her Nine Lives.
-]
-
-
-“My name is Pixie. I have lived my eight lives, speaking after the
-manner of cats, and am now in my ninth, which will soon end.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  To Catch Butterflies.
-]
-
-“When I was small and very young I was dropped in water. The water
-washed me back to the sand. I could not stir. I was kicked. People said
-‘dead kitten.’ A great cat took me to a good place and licked me, and I
-opened my eyes. The great cat came many times. I should not have lived
-if she had not caught butterflies and grasshoppers for me. She got very
-good butterflies. Sometimes her spotted kitten came to see me, and
-sometimes she went to the fields with her mother to get butterflies and
-grasshoppers for me, and one day she brought me a very big grasshopper.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  She Brought Me a Very Big Grasshopper.
-]
-
-“When I could stand on all my feet the great cat carried me in her mouth
-to a house and a girl let me come in, and I was that girl’s kitten. She
-held me a great deal. Once when I was crawling on the floor, the boy
-walked across and he stepped on me so hard that I was all out flat, and
-they took me up on a shovel and carried me out to another room to stay
-till I could be buried. Next morning the girl came out there crying
-because her kitten was dead. The boy came with a shovel to bury me; but
-I was crawling on the hearth. The boy said, ‘Hurrah for Pixie!’ and the
-girl hugged me and kissed me.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Was Scared.
-]
-
-“One day the boy took something off the stove, and tied the dog to it
-and told the girl to carry me to ride; and she put me in and tried to
-carry me to ride, but it was too warm, and I was scared of riding in it,
-and jumped out and ran with all my might through the house and
-up-stairs, and hid in a closet. The closet-door got shut and I stayed
-there. I had nothing to eat. I mewed all the time, but the people were
-far away. When I could not mew any longer I dropped down. There was
-nothing left of me but my skin and my bones. When the people found me
-they took me out-doors to bury me. They put me in the sunshine and in a
-little while I opened my eyes. I was close to the hens’ clams, and I ate
-some and crawled away from that place, and the boy carried me into the
-house, and I got well.
-
-“Mornings I scratched on the girl’s door and when I was let in I jumped
-upon her bed and played with her nose and with her toes, and sat on her
-and purred loud.
-
-“A white cat lived in that house. She was not my girl’s cat. She was the
-small girl’s cat. She could not purr. She had no voice to purr. The
-small girl put the white cat’s ear close to my mouth and said, ‘Purr
-like Pixie!’ and the boy rubbed her paws together, to make her purr, and
-squeezed her tail softly and stroked her, but she did not purr. She had
-no voice to purr.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“The white cat and I played together with the balls and the spools and
-the hammock strings and the knitting-work, and sometimes Pomp, the dog,
-played with us. The dog liked to play. When the small girl stayed in the
-hammock to sew her work and see picture books, the white cat used to
-stay in the hammock or close by, and take a nap; but the boy used to
-come and make her jump, and sometimes Pomp came there and jumped in the
-hammock.
-
-“When the white cat grew older she had some kittens. I had not had any
-kittens. She was taken much notice of. The white cat lost all her
-kittens but one and as soon as that one could run she and her mother
-were sent away. Then the small girl held me and I was glad, for she
-spoke to me softly and touched me softly. She liked me because I could
-purr.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“One morning the white cat came back with her kitten. I saw her standing
-at the door to be let in, and I knew she ought not to come back, and I
-tried to drive her away, and we had a fight, and a cruel woman threw hot
-water at us from the kitchen, and it scalded my head and I went under
-some bushes to die. I could not see; I went by my smellers. When people
-found me they called me but I would not come out. They brought me some
-milk and a piece of meat, and I ate a little, and when I could see with
-both eyes I came out, but my neck has always been stiff on one side.
-
-“The next time I almost got killed it was by a heavy stone. The stone
-fell on me. I liked to go in the garden and climb upon a high wall and
-see what was on the other side. A Molly girl lived on the other side,
-and a horse, and a dog, and two great cats, and hens, and there was a
-great deal there that was good to eat. The Molly girl wanted me to play
-in the sand with her and sometimes she took me down from the wall. She
-made holes in the sand and covered me up and when I was covered up I
-jumped out and ran and then came back. Sometimes she let me ride with
-her Jemima in her Jemima’s doll carriage.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Climb Up on a High Wall.
-]
-
-“A woman came out every day to give corn to the hens, and things to the
-two great cats, and talk to the horses. I did not want the hen’s corn. I
-liked the things that were put into the two great cats’ plate, but the
-dog always wanted what was left. The two great cats had a plate of their
-own.
-
-“Once when the two great cats were not there and that dog was not, the
-woman put something in the plate, and went away and I thought I would
-jump quick and get it, and I raced along the wall and got tangled in a
-vine, and jumped, and fell and pulled a great stone down on myself; on
-the back part of myself; and I could not stir, and when the boy found me
-and took the stone off, I was a good deal jammed, and I could not walk
-with the legs which belong to that part. People said I must be killed,
-but they waited, and I did not have to be killed. I walked with all my
-legs.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“When I grew bigger I used to go into the Molly girl’s house and the
-woman used to drive me away. She did not like me, for she saw me get
-into the hen-house at a place where it was broken, and saw egg-shells I
-left when I sucked the eggs. I could not eat egg-shells.
-
-“One day I did something bad, though I did not know it was bad. I was in
-the Molly girl’s house. Her Jemima’s doll’s carriage was on a high
-place, but the strings hung over. The wind blew hard that day and I was
-very frisky and I jumped and pulled the doll carriage down by the
-strings and broke it, and dragged it about and played with it very long.
-When the Molly girl came there she cried. The people came and drove me
-out, and said very loud, ‘_Scat! scat!_’ A cruel boy that heard them
-_scatting_ me set his dog on me, and that dog chased me, but he would
-not have touched me if the cruel boy had not said, ‘Shake her!’ When he
-heard that he took me by the throat. Oh _Dum_ and _Dee_, may you never
-have anything so dreadful happen to you!
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  I Did Something Bad.
-]
-
-“The dog dropped me behind a tree and people found me and said I was
-dead. The girl I belonged to said I was alive, and they waited, and when
-they saw the end of my tail stir they put something on the sores the dog
-made, and the grandma woman took care of me, and I got well. But I would
-rather have died than to have that cruel boy do so again. Only a cat can
-know what a cat can suffer from cruel boys. Dogs would not hurt us if
-people and cruel boys did not tell them to.
-
-“One day I had some kittens of my own. We were in a good closet close by
-my own girl’s bed. Oh I was proud of my pretty little dears! I wanted
-people to come and see them. But when people came they said, ‘Why! why!
-why! The cat has kittens in the closet! Take the cat and kittens away
-from that closet!’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Carried Them to the Barn.
-]
-
-“They carried us up to the garret and put us in a box. I would not stay
-there. I took my kittens one at a time and carried them in my mouth back
-to the closet. We were put up in the box again and the garret door was
-kept shut. I got out of the window and carried my kittens down by tree
-branches, and got in by another window, and soon they found us in the
-closet. Then the boy put some of my kittens in his hat and another boy
-took some and they carried them to the barn, and I went there too; but I
-would not stay there. I knew what the best place was, the best place was
-the closet.
-
-“When it was dark I carried my kittens back to the closet. Then they
-carried us down cellar, and kept the door shut. I found a hole and made
-it bigger, and squeezed through that hole with my kittens and went back
-to the closet. They put us down cellar again and stopped up the hole,
-and kept the door shut.
-
-“One day soon as the door was opened I slipped quick between somebody’s
-feet, and went up-stairs to the grandma woman’s room, and sat by the
-fire. The grandma woman looked at me hard and said, ‘Poor Pixie! It is
-too cold for your kittens down cellar; go bring them here.’
-
-“I knew what she said and answered her in my mew language, and went and
-got my kittens and she made a bed for us in a basket that had room in
-it.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Where It Was Not Right for Kittens to Go.
-]
-
-“When my kittens were big enough to crawl I went away and left them
-sometimes, and if they cried for my going I punished them. When they
-were good I let them play with my tail; but I always kept one paw ready
-to punish them if they bit me, or bit each other. I took great comfort
-with my dear kittens. They understood everything I said to them. One was
-taken from me, but I tried to be contented with what were left.
-
-“They soon grew big enough to follow me all over the house, and I took
-them to many places. One room was always shut. I did not like that. No
-cat likes to have a door kept shut.
-
-“One day a woman went in that room and worked and moved the things; and
-she went away and left the door not shut tight, and I pushed in with my
-kittens, and they had a happy time. They raced and scampered as if they
-were crazy kittens, for there was a high wind blowing that day. I tried
-to keep them out of the bed-curtains, but they would go there. They all
-got on the bed and raced over the pillows where it was not right for
-kittens or even cats to go, and they bit the fringes, and jumped up and
-clawed the tassels and some of the tassels were so good that I clawed
-them myself. Almost any cat will claw a good tassel hanging down in a
-windy day. The kittens rolled over each other too near the edge of the
-bed and rolled off, and hopped up and went scampering round the room
-pulling all the things they wanted to. They went up on high places and
-tipped things over, and pulled things down, and got into the drawers,
-and Pomp heard them, and he came in there and jumped about and pulled
-things out of the drawers, and gnawed things, and played with my
-kittens. They would not mind me, and all I could do was to sit in a
-chair and watch them.
-
-“I thought I heard a mouse in a closet, and went in there to see; and
-while I was in there somebody drove out my kittens and Pomp. I stayed to
-see about the mouse, and I ate something bad in that closet. It had been
-put there for the mice.
-
-“What I ate in that closet made me sick and I was very sick. They gave
-me medicine. They held my mouth open and put the medicine down my throat
-with a spoon. I did not like it. I would not take any more. I went away
-in dark places. Sometimes I crawled into the house, and then they tried
-to make me eat. They could not make me eat. I grew weaker and weaker,
-and one day they said I was dead. The boy said, ‘That cat is not dead.
-That is one of the cats that will live all her nine lives.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Only Two.
-]
-
-“I was not dead, or if I was dead I came to life again.
-
-“When I came to life again two of my kittens were playing by my side.
-Only two. The others were gone. Very soon even these two were taken from
-me. Not one of them ever came back. Kittens that have been taken away do
-not come back.
-
-“Now that I had no kittens to need me at home, I was free to go out and
-meet my friends on fences and the shed-roofs. I went often, and enjoyed
-my fights with them very much.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  There I Saw a Rat Hanging by His Tail.
-]
-
-“One day when it was cold weather I went to a swamp to watch a rat’s
-nest. Another cat had been watching for that rat, but I meant to get it
-myself. I ran all the way, and when I got there I saw the rat on the
-tree holding on by his tail and eating what he could find, and I went
-up, but the rat slipped down the other side and went to his nest.
-
-“I had better have kept away from that tree. By going up that tree I got
-shot. Two boys saw me, and one shot me. I dropped to the ground. The
-boys came and kicked me. I was almost dead. The shots stayed in me and
-they are in me now. I could crawl a little, but I was very weak.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  He Dropped Me on a Doorstep.
-]
-
-“While I stayed there, crawling a little when I could, a cat came out
-from the swamp and ran at me. She was one of my own kittens grown up
-into a cat. She had been dropped in the woods, and she was a wild cat.
-She flew at me and she would have damaged me very much if a dog had not
-barked and scared her away. The dog did not touch me. He took me out of
-a muddy ditch. I was crawling, and did not know I was close to the muddy
-ditch, and fell into it and went deep in the mud and water. The dog
-jumped in and pulled me out. He carried me to a house and dropped me on
-the doorstep. The boy came from my house to see me. The people said I
-was dead. The boy said, ‘No, she will come to life. She is a cat that
-will live all her nine lives.’ And I did come to life. The boy carried
-me home, and the grandma woman washed me and fed me with milk, and put
-me in a good bed, and I was soon well enough to take a little squash
-with my milk.
-
-“The grandma woman used to hold me, and speak softly to me, and if I
-jumped on her shoulder she never pushed me off and said ‘scat!’ If I
-jumped up there when she was eating breakfast she let me stay, and let
-me taste of her breakfast.
-
-“I wanted to thank the grandma woman, and so one day I brought her a
-little fish I caught in the pond. I stood on a stone in the pond and
-looked down close to the water, and when a fish saw my eyes shine
-sometimes it would jump up, and if I put my paw out quick I could catch
-the fish. The grandma woman was pleased when I brought the fish, and she
-wanted to sing to me. I did not like to hear anybody sing. When anybody
-began to sing I got up and walked all around the room, and scratched at
-the doors, and I could not keep still. Sometimes the grandma woman sang
-when I was asleep; but I opened my eyes and began to walk. Sometimes I
-jumped up and put my paw on her mouth.
-
-“One day the white cat and myself got carried off in a bag. It was going
-to rain, and we were washing our faces a great deal. A bad boy called us
-out, and we stopped washing our faces and went out, and he put us in a
-bag. There were very many cats in the bag. The boy carried us to a place
-far away and put more cats in the bag, then he carried us to another
-place and put more cats in, and then he carried us all very far to a
-strange place and let us all out of the bag in a room and shut the doors
-and windows tight.
-
-“One of the windows was broken a little and a great cat pushed the glass
-out, and we all went through, and set off for our own homes in the rain,
-but I went in a barn and hid till the rain stopped. It took me very long
-to go home.
-
-“As I passed by a house on my way home, a man in that house was making a
-noise on a fiddle, and I ran and jumped up on his shoulder, because he
-was making the noise, and he pushed me off, and I ran, and he threw a
-wet blacking brush at me, and made a spot on my fur.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  She Never Pushed Me Off and Said, Scat!
-]
-
-“I came home and tried to lick off the spot, but I could not reach it.
-It is far off and my neck is stiff. Not any cat would lick it off for
-me. I smelt it all the time and felt it, and it worried me. I could not
-eat. I grew weak and sick. Sometimes I crawled to the basin and lapped
-one or two laps of milk, but no more. I did not catch. Mice came near,
-and I did not even stir the end of my tail. I kept in dark places. I
-have but little strength left, and with that I am now crawling to the
-woods to die. Farewell. Beware of guns, beware of dogs, beware of
-stones, beware of stepping on, beware of shutting up, beware of hot
-water, beware of drowning, beware of cruel boys, beware of wet blacking
-brushes. Farewell. You will never see me more.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  And Lapped One or Two Laps of Milk.
-]
-
-“Pixie then crawled to the woods where she was afterwards found dead; so
-dead that she never came back to life.
-
-“_Dum_ and _Dee_, and Mouseroun and Phi, his Wisdom Cat, watched Pixie
-until she had crawled out of sight. _Dum_ and _Dee_ then frisked away to
-catch bugs for the puss with the large family of kittens, and Mouseroun
-and Phi journeyed on to seek the renowned Mistress Tabby Furpurr, who
-found out a way of not liking birds, and on that account had her picture
-taken and set in a pussy-willow frame, and who had promised to tell the
-way to Mouseroun and Phi.
-
-“They did not find her. The renowned Mistress Tabby Furpurr had long
-lain buried beneath the lilac bush, having died of old age, and alas!
-without revealing the way she found out of not liking birds!”
-
-                  *       *       *       *       *
-
-“Which was a pity,” said the lovely Pussyanita to King Grimalkum as she
-finished the story, “since now our race must be blamed for liking birds
-when they cannot help liking them. Blamed, dropped, shot, drowned,
-stoned—not many of us would be living had we not our nine lives, though
-not many cats have done to them what was spoken of in the story the cat
-that hadn’t common sense told at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party.”
-
-“What story was that?” asked King Grimalkum quickly.
-
-“Nothing your majesty will care to hear,” answered Pussyanita. “It is
-not a common sense story.”
-
-“I say I do want to hear it,” cried King Grimalkum. “I don’t want any
-more common sense stories. I’m tired of common sense. I insist upon
-knowing what was spoken of in the story the cat that hadn’t common sense
-told at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party.”
-
-“Your majesty must understand,” said Pussyanita, “that probably it never
-really—”
-
-“I don’t care a mouse-ear for your _never reallys_,” interrupted King
-Grimalkum. “I want the story.”
-
-“Your majesty’s wish shall be obeyed,” replied Pussyanita, “but your
-majesty will perceive at the beginning that it is not a common sense
-story.”
-
-“Make no more words about it!” furiously cried the king, “if you do
-I’ll—”
-
-The lovely Pussyanita made no more words about it, but hastened to begin
-The Story of the Two Charcoals and the Four Spekkums.
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Story of the Two Charcoals and the Four Spekkums.
-]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-“There was once a cat who had six kittens of exactly the same size, two
-very dark ones and four very light ones, and as she could not think of
-names for so many and as it was an important matter, she spoke to their
-uncle Thomas about it. Their uncle Thomas said it was an important
-matter, and sent her to ask the wise and aged Goody Gumbo. Goody Gumbo
-had seen much and heard much, for she had been alive ever since the days
-when willow trees bore real pussys and some said she was picked off a
-willow tree herself.
-
-“Goody Gumbo named the two dark kittens Charcoal, and the four light
-ones Spekkum, and they were afterwards spoken of as the Charcoals and
-Spekkums.
-
-“When the Charcoals and the Spekkums had grown old enough to run
-out-doors, it was seen that one of the Spekkums was much too frisky, and
-that they all were likely to be.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“Their mother spoke to their uncle Thomas about it and he said, ‘send
-three of them to school to learn to behave and they can teach the other
-three.
-
-“‘Send three of the Spekkums and let Frisky Spekkum be one of the three.
-I will see the schoolma’am.’
-
-“The schoolma’am said that she would teach three of the Spekkums to
-behave if they would go to the school well dusted in meal bag powder, as
-she herself always did. Their mother said she would attend to that and
-three of the Spekkums were sent to school and Frisky Spekkum was one of
-the three.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“The schoolma’am took them by themselves and talked to them seriously.
-She then placed them in a row and said: ‘Rule first! Sit straight; tails
-down; noses up; ears flat; paws hanging!’
-
-“They did so, but Frisky Spekkum did not sit as straight as the others.
-
-“‘Rule second! All stand. Ears up; tails up!’
-
-“They did so, but Frisky Spekkum sat down before she was told to. ‘If
-you can’t mind,’ said the schoolma’am, ‘I’ll have no more to do with
-you,’ and turned away with a scowl.
-
-“‘O, do have something to do with me!’ cried Frisky Spekkum, and stood
-quickly on her feet.
-
-“‘I will if you will be good,’ said the schoolma’am, and turned back
-with a smile, and went on with the rules. ‘Rule third! Sit straight;
-ears up; noses down; paws up!’
-
-“They did so, though Frisky Spekkum would not hold her paws as high as
-the others; and she frisked and caused the others to frisk.
-
-“‘When you have learned to make your bows and say good afternoon
-properly you may go home,’ the schoolma’am said. They all made their
-bows and said good afternoon properly, for all were anxious to go home,
-and Frisky Spekkum did better than the others, for she was more anxious
-to go home.
-
-“‘Now go,’ said the schoolma’am, ‘you are a troublesome set and I am
-glad to be done with you. Scamper home.’ And they scampered home.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“On their way home they saw a young rat walking out with his parents,
-and went behind a wall and peeped through. They wanted the young rat but
-did not like to touch him when his parents were with him. The young rat
-was telling his parents of a beautiful shiny box with beautiful cheese
-in it. His father said ‘My child, go not near that beautiful shiny box
-nor touch that beautiful cheese.’
-
-“The young rat did go to that beautiful shiny box and touch that
-beautiful cheese and came near losing his life, as my story will soon
-tell.
-
-“The three Spekkums went home to dinner, a very good dinner of milk and
-herring. Their uncle Thomas was there and while they were at dinner a
-kind girl presented every one of them with a neck ribbon. The Charcoals
-and the Spekkums went out to play and Frisky Spekkum was naughty and
-gnawed the others’ neck-ribbons and made them gnaw hers. Their mother
-spoke to their uncle Thomas about it and he told Frisky that if she did
-not behave he should have to send word to the rats to carry her away, as
-they carried away Mab Fizz-Fuzz. She said she was not afraid.
-
-“The two Charcoals went to their uncle Thomas’ house to supper and the
-four Spekkums stayed with their mother. When it was supper time their
-mother said to them softly, ‘Follow me and I will give you something
-good.’
-
-“They followed her and she led them to the beautiful shiny box.
-
-“‘You see what is inside,’ said she, ‘jump quick, when I lift up the
-door.’
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Not Quick Enough.
-]
-
-“The young rat was inside. He had eaten the beautiful cheese and wished
-to stay no longer in the beautiful shiny box. He sprang out when the
-door was lifted. The four Spekkums sprang after him. They were not quick
-enough. He slipped through a rat-hole, though Frisky Spekkum was near
-enough to claw his tail as it went through. He was so frightened he knew
-not what he was doing and went straight into a bottle, and there was
-something bad left in the bottle, and he would have died of that if a
-friendly young frog had not found him. The young frog’s family and the
-young rat’s family had been friends ever since one of the young frog’s
-family saved the life of one of the young rat’s family, and that was a
-long, long time before. It was before the Janjibo.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“But all this belongs to another story and cannot be told now, for there
-is yet more to tell of the Charcoals and the Spekkums.
-
-“One day their uncle Thomas put on his best clothes and his tall hat and
-got a sleigh box and two pair of rabbits and invited the Charcoals’ and
-Spekkums’ mother to go sleighing with him. Their mother smiled and
-quickly put on her best clothes and her bonnet with flowers and got her
-best muff.
-
-“The Charcoals and Spekkums all wanted to go, but their uncle Thomas
-said so many would be too many for the rabbits and that he would take
-three and take the other three next time.
-
-“They took three of the Spekkums and told Frisky Spekkum to stay and
-wait with the two Charcoals and go next time. Their uncle Thomas then
-helped their mother in, and took his seat, and the three Spekkums hopped
-in behind and sat looking over the side as happy as they could be. Their
-mother told them to hold on tight for their uncle Thomas would soon whip
-up, and they might fall out. Their uncle Thomas whipped up and the
-rabbits set off upon a gallop.
-
-“Just as they were setting off, Frisky Spekkum ran away from the two
-Charcoals and climbed up behind the sleigh-box, and held on and tried to
-get in, but the rabbits went so fast that she fell off and rolled over
-and over.
-
-“She went back to play with the Charcoals, but she did not behave well.
-She was too frisky with them. She bit ears, and she almost bit off the
-two Charcoals’ neck-ribbons and made them bite off her neck ribbon and
-was so frisky that one of the Charcoals would not play, and went away.
-Frisky then took the other Charcoal with her into pantries and a hen
-house and other places where cats ought never to go, and made her eat
-with her thick cream, and custard pie, and other things which cats ought
-never to eat. They also clawed a best carpet.
-
-“Their uncle Thomas came home and found them in a cheese and butter
-closet, and they ran, and he ran and caught them by their tails and
-punished them severely.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Frisky Spekkum Tries to Steal a Ride.
-]
-
-“This did not cure Frisky Spekkum. She was still too Frisky. She frisked
-with tassels, she frisked with whip-lashes, she frisked with reins, she
-frisked with flies she frisked with rabbits, she frisked with dogs’
-tails, she frisked with pigs’ tails. Her mother told her of Mab
-Fizz-Fuzz who was carried off by her tail by the rats, and told her that
-if she did not stop being too frisky then rats would have to be sent
-for. But Frisky would not believe there ever was any Mab Fizz-Fuzz, and
-would not stop being too frisky. Her mother spoke to her uncle Thomas
-about it, and her uncle Thomas said her mother had better send her to
-Goody Gumbo to be talked to. He said that as Goody Gumbo had been alive
-ever since real pussys grew on pussy-willow trees, she would know how to
-talk to her.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  In a Cheese and Butter Closet.
-]
-
-“Frisky Spekkum was sent to Goody Gumbo to be talked to, but when the
-talking began she made believe be deaf and not hear a word. Goody Gumbo
-kept ear-trumpets for deaf ones and she gave Frisky a heavy ear-trumpet
-and made her hold it till the talking was done.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Goody Gumbo Talking to Frisky.
-]
-
-“After she was talked to by Goody Gumbo, Frisky Spekkum was not too
-frisky for a very long time. She played with the two Charcoals and the
-other Spekkums, and behaved as well as any of them. They were all quiet
-and happy, and Frisky was as quiet and happy as the others. When they
-were playing together Frisky made no mischief with the tails of the
-others. She behaved as well as the others.
-
-“This pleased their mother very much and she spoke to their uncle Thomas
-about it. Their uncle Thomas said he did not believe that Frisky Spekkum
-behaved as well as the two Charcoals and the other Spekkums. Their
-mother told him to come and see.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Charcoals and the Speckkums on Their Good Behavior.
-]
-
-“Their mother made them sit close together, in a row, with their ears
-all turned the same way and their eyes all turned the same way, and
-their tails all turned the same way around their fore paws, and Frisky
-Spekkum sat so still that when their uncle Thomas came to see he could
-not tell which one was Frisky.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“Not long after this the same kind girl gave them all new neck-ribbons
-and their mother said that as they had new neck-ribbons and Frisky had
-stopped being too frisky, she would have a party. Then she thought it
-would be a good plan to have them go to singing-school and learn
-something to sing at the party. She spoke to their uncle Thomas about it
-and their uncle Thomas said he would try their voices and find out which
-had voices to sing. He tried their voices and found out that only one of
-the Charcoals and two of the Spekkums had voices to sing. Frisky Spekkum
-was not one of the two Spekkums that had voices to sing, and she did not
-go to the singing-school.
-
-“The three that had voices to sing went to singing-school, and were put
-in a row by themselves where they sat very still with their tails around
-their fore paws as their mother and their uncle Thomas told them to, and
-had their voices tried and were taught to sing the song of The Two
-Tailed Mouse, every word of which was as true as cream.
-
-“The party was to be in a barn-room on account of a large basket of fish
-and lobsters which had been placed there, and it was to be an evening
-party.
-
-“Before it was time for the party to begin, the three who were to sing
-the song of The Two Tailed Mouse, were told by their mother to go to the
-barn-room and sit in a proper manner and sing the song until they could
-sing it well enough to sing it at the party and please all who might
-hear it. They obeyed her, and as Frisky Spekkum had not been too frisky
-for a very long time, she was allowed to go and hear them sing, if she
-would sit still. She sat still a great while, but hearing the singing
-and looking much at the lobster-feelers made her want to be too frisky
-and she frisked with the lobster-feelers, and went into the basket and
-frisked with lobster claws, and gnawed them, and clawed them, and gnawed
-and clawed some little fishes, and ate all she could of the fishes and
-the lobsters, and made herself sick, and could not stay up at the party.
-She had to go to bed in the haymow, and when she was asleep she dreamed
-that her name was Mab Fizz-Fuzz, and that rats dragged her off by the
-tail through a place that was too small.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Frisky Spekkum’s Dream.
-]
-
-“She woke up sorrowful. She was sorrowful long. She would not eat, she
-would not run, she would not catch, she would not play with the two
-Charcoals and the other Spekkums. Their mother spoke to their uncle
-Thomas about it, and their uncle Thomas said he thought that dream would
-do Frisky Spekkum good.”
-
-                  *       *       *       *       *
-
-“And that is the end of the story, your majesty,” said the lovely
-Pussyanita.
-
-“End?” exclaimed the King. “It has no end. It leaves off short. Why does
-it leave off short? Why does it not come to a proper end, namely, by the
-way a cat’s tail does?”
-
-“Because, your majesty, it is not a common sense story,” replied the
-lovely Pussyanita. “I told your majesty at the beginning your majesty
-would not like a story that’s not a common sense story.”
-
-“I say I do like stories that are not common sense stories!” cried King
-Grimalkum. “Common sense makes my head ache. Tell me another. Tell the
-one you skipped; that about the Janjan’s.”
-
-“Your majesty means The Janjibo,” said Pussyanita. “That is the silliest
-story that ever was.”
-
-“I have always wanted to hear the silliest story that ever was,” said
-the King. “Tell it. And let it have an end, or you’ll be sorry.”
-
-The lovely Pussyanita bowed and began the Story of the Janjibo, and of
-the Frog and the Rat.
-
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-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Story of the Janjibo, and of the Frog and the Rat.
-]
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Watching the Rat.
-]
-
-
-“Once upon a time, a long time ago, a family of rats made a home for
-themselves in a haymow, and a good home it was. Corn, and potatoes, and
-hayseed and other things were handy. With all these good things handy,
-one of the young rats must needs walk into a trap. Two cats had long
-been watching the family, and when they saw this young rat go towards
-the trap, they sprang, and one of them caught him by the end of his tail
-just as he was going in, and pulled him out, but he got away and ran
-down-stairs, and the two cats after him, and at the bottom of the stairs
-he ran into something with a big hole at the big end and a small hole at
-the small end. He went in at the big hole, and the cats went in at the
-big hole after him. He went out at the small hole. It was just big
-enough for him to go through, and was not big enough for the cats to go
-through, and they turned round quick, and got tangled up in each other,
-and went out and went round outside and chased him, but the young rat
-had jumped out of a window. He was so frightened that he ran, and ran,
-and ran, across fields and hills, and got lost in a boggy swamp, and a
-great snapping turtle would have snapped him up, if a young frog had not
-begged the snapping turtle to let him live. The snapping turtle said he
-would let him live if the young frog would take care of him. The young
-frog said he would if his mother would be willing. The young frog’s
-mother said he might take care of him if the young rat would promise not
-to eat any tadpoles.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  In After Him.
-]
-
-“The young rat promised not to eat any tadpoles, and the young frog took
-care of him and they lived together, and played tag together, and
-hide-and-seek together, and tiltered together, and did other things
-together. When the frog hid he croaked for the rat to come and find him,
-and when the rat hid he squealed for the frog to come and find him. When
-the frog hid among the cat-o’-nine-tails, the young rat wouldn’t play;
-and when they played tag, if the frog went among the cat-o’-nine-tails
-the rat wouldn’t chase. When they played tilter, they had to tilt high
-so that the frog’s legs need not touch the ground.
-
-“The young rat was happy, and had no wish to return to his family. He
-went to all the frog concerts, and tried to get the frog tunes, but as
-he could only squeak them, or squeal them, and could not croak them, he
-could not get the frog tunes.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  They Had to Tilt High.
-]
-
-“At last his family heard where he was, and begged his aunt to go fetch
-him home, as she had no children, and could leave home as well as not.
-His aunt said she would go as soon as news should come from the King of
-the Cats. The King of the Cats was expected to die. He had caught a bad
-cold wading for eels on a damp day, and had taken to his bed, and called
-in Doctor Bowwow, and Doctor Bowwow had looked at his tongue and told
-him he could not live. The young rat’s family begged his aunt to go
-right off. She said she wished to wait and hear of the death of the King
-of the Cats, for that would be good to hear.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“As soon as word came that the King of the Cats was dead, the young
-rat’s aunt set off to the far-off swamp, and found it, but by that time
-the young rat had gone with the young frog to live on the edge of the
-pond. She looked all through the swamp, and got her feet wet, and lost
-her way, and tangled herself in the swamp-vines, and caught herself in a
-swamp-vine string and could not get away, and there she stayed until the
-day of the Wonderful News.
-
-“The Wonderful News was brought by a travelling kangaroo. As the young
-rat and the frog were sitting one evening by the edge of the pond, a
-kangaroo came leaping past, and stopped between two of his leaps and
-said, ‘Wonderful News! Peace between the cats and the rats and mice! All
-friends!’ and the kangaroo leaped on.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“‘Wonderful news indeed!’ said the young rat. ‘I must let the water rats
-know.’
-
-“The frog said he would attend to that, and he got upon a log and
-croaked, ‘Wonderful news! Peace between the cats and the rats and mice!’
-
-“Other frogs heard him, and sat upon logs, stones, rocks and stumps, and
-croaked, ‘Wonderful news! Peace between the cats and the rats and mice!’
-and other frogs heard these other frogs, and croaked the same, and the
-great bull-frogs got hold of it and bellowed it, and frogs and
-bull-frogs in other ponds and swamps and bogs heard it, and croaked it
-and bellowed it, and before morning the Wonderful News was known to
-every water rat far and near; and the water rats told the land rats as
-quickly as they could.
-
-“The young rat’s aunt heard it in the swamp, and jumped hard and broke
-the swamp-vine string, and set off on a gallop, this way and that way,
-and the wrong way, and lost her way, and away she went.
-
-“The young rat said he must travel off somewhere and hear how it all
-happened, and he and the frog set out together and travelled. Sometimes
-the young rat let the frog ride on his back, because he could go faster
-by runs than the frog could by leaps. The rat could not go frog-back,
-because it was so hard to keep on. When they had travelled a long way
-they met a mother rat, with her baby in her mouth, running as fast as
-she could go.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“The young rat asked her to stop and speak to him, and she stopped. The
-young rat then asked the mother rat where she was going so fast, and the
-mother rat said her baby was too sick to be left alone, and that she
-could not stay away from the Janjibo, and she was carrying the baby to
-stay at its grandfather’s till she should come back from the Janjibo.
-The young rat asked her what there was to be a Janjibo for.
-
-“She asked him if he had not heard the ‘Wonderful News.’ He said he had,
-and that he wished to know how it all happened. The mother rat then said
-that if they would come to her baby’s grandfather’s, they could then go
-with her to the Janjibo, and on the way there she would tell them how it
-all happened. They went with her to her baby’s grandfather’s and then to
-the Janjibo, and this is what the mother rat told.”
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  What the Mother Rat Told.
-]
-
-
-“After the King of the Cats died, and the King of the Cats’ son had been
-made king, the rats and mice sent to ask if the cats and the rats and
-mice could not be friends, so that there might be peace between them.
-The new king said he did not think it would be a good plan at all, but
-he would see what the dogs had to say about it, for dogs had the name of
-knowing more than cats. He picked out three of his wisest cats, and sent
-them to the dogs, and the dogs picked out two of their chief dogs, one
-named Know and the other named Quick, and the two dogs and the three
-cats met together. Quick asked Know what cats could live upon if they
-did not eat rats, and mice. Know said that if cats should give up
-catching, then people would feed them more. People kept from feeding
-them so as to make them catch.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Wise Cats and Dogs.
-]
-
-“The wisest of the three wise cats said that dogs were not expected to
-catch; they were fed by people.
-
-“Know asked if it was great trouble to catch rats and mice. The next
-wisest of the three cats said that if he should try it he would find
-that it was much easier to eat off a plate, or even off the floor, than
-to sit half the night in a cold barn, or cellar, or garret, tired and
-hungry, watching rat-holes and mouse-holes. Quick asked if rat-holes and
-mouse-holes could not be in rooms people lived in where it would be
-pleasant for a cat to sit and watch. Know said that could not be, for
-rats and mice did not like people as well as cats did.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Pledges of Good Faith.
-]
-
-“The end of it all was that the dogs thought it would be a good thing
-for the cats to be friends with the rats and mice, and a little bird
-that heard all the talk told the Kangaroos.
-
-“In order to be sure that the cats and the rats and mice should do right
-by each other, the dogs said that the rats must give up a baby rat to be
-kept by the cats, and the cats must give up a baby cat to be kept by the
-rats. This was done. The baby rat was youngest of a family of four
-children, and the baby cat was the youngest of a family of four. The
-dogs said this would make it even.
-
-“The three cats walked in procession with the baby in front, and their
-oldest sister walked after them all, and the three rats walked in
-procession with their baby in front and their oldest sister walked after
-them all. But when they came in sight of each other, the rats were
-afraid of the cats and went behind their oldest sister. The oldest
-sister of the rats then took the baby cat in her mouth, and the cat
-procession started, and when the oldest sister of the cats came to the
-baby rat she took that in her mouth and then the rat procession started,
-and both processions walked away, and the baby rat is now staying with
-the cats, and the baby cat stays with the rats, and all is well. We do
-not have to hide in holes and under floors and behind walls, and our
-children will all live to grow up, unless they get sick from eating
-poison, as my baby did.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“And now that we are all friends, the cats and the rats and mice are
-going to meet together and have a Janjibo, and there is to be fine music
-and the tables are to be spread with everything nice. The dogs said that
-as the rats and mice were the ones to ask to be friends they must be the
-ones to bring things to eat, and they are working with all their might
-to get ready the pies, and cakes, and jellies, and ice-creams, and nuts,
-and sweet corn, and cheeses, and eggs, and dishes, and knives, and
-forks, and spoons. We shall soon see them, for we are near the place
-where the Janjibo is to be.
-
-“As the frog and the young rat and the mother rat came near the place
-where the Janjibo was to be, they saw rats hurry skurrying as fast as
-they could with cakes, pies, dishes and other things. They met gentlemen
-rats in their best clothes, carrying knives, forks and spoons, and
-looking everywhere for eggs.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Way the Egg Went Safely.
-]
-
-“Three of these gentlemen rats in their best clothes, found an egg and
-began to roll it. ‘We shall break it doing this way,’ said one to the
-others. ‘I am afraid we shall,’ said the others, and they stopped to
-think. The mother rat went to them and said: ‘The shells of eggs are too
-thin. Shells of eggs should be thicker.
-
-“‘But I can tell you a way. Let one of you gentlemen lie flat on his
-back and hold the egg with all four of his legs and let the other two
-gentlemen draw that one by his tail; then the egg will go safe and the
-gentleman will get a ride.’
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“They did so. The gentleman rat that had the knife gave the knife to the
-gentleman rat that had the fork and lay down flat on his back, and held
-the egg in all four of his legs and the other two drew him by his tail
-and the egg went safe and he got a ride.
-
-“Next came a lively young cat with a pudding-bag string. She said she
-was frolicking with the rats and was running away with their pudding-bag
-string. She said she did not care about the Janjibo. She did not care
-about the peace. She wanted to have a good time. She did not know if she
-should like to be friends with the rats and mice. Sometimes it was good
-fun to catch them.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Cat Ran Away With the Pudding-Bag String.
-]
-
-“The mother rat told her that she was very naughty, and the rats could
-not do without their pudding-bag string and that she must carry it back
-to them. She did not. She went dancing away with it.
-
-“Next came a great many rats with a pie so big they could hardly lift
-it. They were afraid they should drop it, and they held it up with all
-their might by their heads and their backs, and their shoulders. The
-Pie-cutter with his knife came close behind. The young rat went to help.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Rats, the Pie and the Pie-Cutter.
-]
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Mother Rat Told the Pie-Cutter How to Cut It.
-]
-
-“The frog said he should be willing to help, but he should have to go
-with leaps, and going with leaps was not a good way to go with a pie.
-The mother rat said to them, ‘You’d better set it down and cut it, and
-then it will be all ready to be passed round. Set it down and cut it,
-and you can rest while you are cutting it. Cut it first in large pieces,
-and then cut the large pieces into small pieces. The pie must all be cut
-in small pieces or there may not be enough to go round.’ They set it
-down, and the mother rat told the Pie-cutter the right way to cut it,
-and he cut it the right way. Just as the Pie-cutter had done cutting it,
-the young rat looked at a light-colored rat that was among the other
-ones, and said, ‘There’s my aunt.’
-
-“It was his aunt. The one that was tangled in the swamp-vine string, and
-broke it in jumping when she heard the Wonderful News, and got away, and
-lost her way. She did not find the way she lost, but she found her way
-to the Janjibo, and was helping.
-
-“‘So you are my nephew!’ she said. ‘How you have grown! Do you know that
-the cats and the rats and mice are friends?’
-
-“‘Oh yes,’ said the young rat. ‘A travelling kangaroo told me.’
-
-“‘Friends indeed!’ said his aunt. ‘Look yonder. Do you see what is doing
-yonder? That is your little brother. Perhaps you never knew that your
-little brother could take pictures.’
-
-“‘Never,’ said the young rat. ‘Can he?’
-
-“‘Yes; he can,’ said his aunt. ‘Yonder he is now, taking the picture of
-a Tabby. He has plenty to do. There is another close by, waiting for her
-turn.’
-
-“‘Why!’ cried the young rat. ‘They are the very same ones that chased me
-when I was a little rat and made me run away!’
-
-“‘Yes’ his aunt said. ‘They are friendly now. What are you going to do?
-Do you want to help us get ready?’
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“‘I do,’ said the young rat.
-
-“‘Step in here then,’ said his aunt. ‘Step in to this Ice-cream Place,
-and stir up the ice-cream. Stir it up with your fore paws.’ They two
-stepped into the Ice-cream Place, and the young rat’s aunt showed him
-how to stir up the ice-cream with his fore paws. While he was doing this
-a cat peeped through the door at him. His aunt thought by the looks of
-the cat’s eye that it was a cat that had not heard of the peace.
-
-“She was so afraid the cat did not know of the peace and would eat the
-young rat that she caught hold of his tail quick and pulled him with all
-her might and they ran out of the Ice-cream Place by two rat-holes. The
-mother rat and the frog were waiting for the young rat and he travelled
-on with them.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Afraid He Had Not Heard of the Peace.
-]
-
-“That cat would not have hurt the young rat. She did know of the peace
-and she was gathering up rats for the Janjibo. The young rat and the
-frog and the mother rat saw her afterwards showing a great many rats
-that had come from afar, the way into the Janjibo and even taking up the
-tired ones in her mouth and carrying them in.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  Taking Up the Tired Ones in Her Mouth.
-]
-
-“Three young kittens sat watching her while they waited for their
-mother. They were dressed in their best clothes and white gloves, all
-ready to dance a jig at the Janjibo.
-
-“They were waiting for their mother to go in with them. Their mother
-taught them the jig and she was coming to fiddle for them to dance. They
-were in a hurry for her to come because they were afraid of a fierce
-black rat who stood near by with his gun. The fierce black rat had been
-ordered to stand there with his gun to keep off the rabbits. The rabbits
-had been heard to say they did not like the peace between the cats and
-the rats and mice, and that they meant to break it up, and meant to
-break up the Janjibo.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Sentinel.
-]
-
-“As soon as the mother rat and the frog and the young rat went into the
-Janjibo, the mother rat met with her oldest daughter, just from home,
-and she kept with her mother and the young rat was polite to her.
-
-“A very great number came to the Janjibo. The supper was good, and after
-supper the ones who could tell stories told stories, and the ones who
-could sing songs, sang songs, and the ones who could talk, talked. A
-mouse with a lame hind leg said she hoped all cats would know of the
-peace and told a Spinning Story.
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  A Spinning Story.
-]
-
-
-“She said that one day when she and her sisters sat spinning in the
-barn, a cat looked in at the window. They did not run, for why should
-they run when cats and mice were friends? The cat that was looking in
-the window had not heard of the peace and she jumped at them. Then they
-ran but she and one of her sisters did not run quick enough, and her
-sister was bitten in the head and she herself was bitten in the hind
-leg, and made lame for life.
-
-“Three blind and feeble mice without any tails then told the Blind Mice
-Story.
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Blind Mice Story.
-]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-“They were born blind, and were obliged to find their way by their
-noses. A farmer’s wife had been giving corn to the hens and some of the
-corn was left in her pocket, and they smelled the corn and ran after the
-farmer’s wife, and she cut off their tails with a carving knife. Now
-they could not run very fast, for no rat can run fast unless he feels
-his tail behind him.
-
-“A cat of the name of Henry, said this story made him think of the
-Air-Ball Story.
-
-
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-
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Air-Ball Story.
-]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-“Three kittens, Faw, Sol, and Law, were once playing in a yard when a
-short boy named Chickerchecker came and tied air-balls to their tails so
-that he might have the fun of seeing the air-balls take Faw, Sol, and
-Law up in the air.
-
-“When Faw, Sol, and Law began to feel the back ends of themselves going
-up they did not know what to do to keep them down and they mewed and
-mewed and stuck the claws of their fore paws into the ground.
-Chickerchecker was much pleased.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“Their mother was the other side of the wall and near enough to hear
-them mew. She knew that if they mewed so, something was the matter. She
-sprang to the top of the wall and looked over and when she saw what had
-been done she was very angry, and jumped down, and took the air-balls
-off of Faw, Sol, and Law’s tails and tied them to Chickerchecker, and
-Chickerchecker went over the wall and blew into a tree.
-
-“Faw, Sol, and Law were so much pleased that they danced up and down.
-Their mother also was much pleased.
-
-“At the end of this story the singing Tommies sang the funny song of the
-Bold Young Fishbone and the Gay Young Wishbone.
-
-“It began with
-
-                    There was a bold young Fishbone,
-                        Finnery, finnery fi!
-                    There was a gay young Wishbone,
-                        Winnery, winnery, wi!
-
-and ended in the same manner.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“The singing Tommies had new jackets and trousers and new gloves, as of
-course any singers would have who were to sing at a Janjibo.
-
-“After this song and others were sung the kittens who came to dance a
-jig, danced it. Their mother played the fiddle well, and they danced
-their steps well and gave much pleasure to all present. All present were
-happy in the peace and no doubt the peace would have lasted to this day
-if the rabbits and the hens had not broken it up.
-
-“The rabbits and the hens did not like the peace. The rabbits said that
-cats must eat and if they did not eat rats and mice they must eat
-rabbits. The hens said that if no rats were eaten they would every one
-live to grow up and would eat all the corn and the hens and other fowl
-would wear themselves out scratching for worms. They said they should
-like to get hold of the frogs, for if the frogs had kept still, so many
-rats would not have heard the Wonderful News.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  They Danced Their Steps Well.
-]
-
-“The rabbits said they did not believe the Lion knew of the peace and
-they meant to send him word and ask him to stop it. The cats would have
-to do whatever he should say, for the Lion was the head of their family
-besides being king of all the animals.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“The cat that ran away with the Pudding-Bag String was known to think
-not very well of the peace and she was asked to go and speak to the
-Lion. She said she would go, but must first borrow her grandmother’s
-boots of swiftness. Her grandmother was just taking her tea and felt
-very well. She said she was not using her boots and was willing to lend
-them if they could be taken good care of. The cat that ran away with the
-Pudding Bag String put them on and went to speak to the Lion.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-“The Lion said the peace was the funniest thing he ever heard of, and
-made him almost die a laughing. He told the cat that ran away with the
-Pudding Bag String to tell the cats there never could be peace between
-the cats and the rats and mice, and never should be so long as Lions
-were Lions, and to tell the rabbits and the hens and other fowl to break
-up the Janjibo.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  The Frog Going Ratback.
-]
-
-“As soon as the rabbits and hens and other fowl heard this they got
-together from all parts and went leaping and running and flying into the
-Janjibo, crying ‘No peace! No peace! The Lion says no peace.’ The hens
-cackled it, the roosters crowed it, the geese squawked it, the turkeys
-gobbled it, the guinea fowl squalled it, the peacocks screamed it, and
-the Janjibo was broken up and the rats and mice ran away quick, for if
-there was no peace they were in dreadful danger.
-
-“The young rat was in a hurry to get away from the cats, and the frog
-was in a hurry to get away from the hens and other fowl. The young rat
-said that as he could go faster by runs than the frog could by leaps, he
-would take the frog ratback. The frog threw on a hat and cloak to hide
-himself, as he had to sit high, in plain sight, and got on the young
-rat’s back, and they went so swift that the frog lost his hat off
-behind.
-
-“The mother rat and her daughter kept as near them as they could. When
-the young rat grew tired he begged the frog to whip him and make him go
-fast, for he would rather be whipped than be caught by the cats.
-
-“He was not caught. They both reached their home at the edge of the
-pond, and left that home no more. The young rat married the mother rat’s
-daughter, and they had many children, and the frog married the frog he
-loved best, and had a large family of little tadpoles, and the little
-tadpoles played with the little rats and the little rats played with the
-little tadpoles, and the little rats told rat stories, and the little
-tadpoles told tadpole stories, and they all lived happily all their
-lives.”
-
-                  *       *       *       *       *
-
-“And that is the end of the story, your majesty,” said the lovely
-Pussyanita. “And a good end,” said King Grimalkum. “I knew I should like
-the story. Is it truly the silliest story that ever was?” “Yes, your
-majesty,” replied Pussyanita. “The silliest, I mean, of our kind of
-stories. Of course it is not as silly as the stories the little tadpoles
-told the little rats.”
-
-“Were the stories the little tadpoles told the little rats, sillier than
-the ones the little rats told the little tadpoles?” asked the king.
-
-“Much sillier,” replied Pussyanita.
-
-“Tell them,” said the king.
-
-“But your majesty,” replied Pussyanita, “there were swarms of little
-tadpoles and I have not long to live.”
-
-“You shall live as long as you can, you lovely creature!” cried the
-king. “Do you think I would put an end to the life of a sweet young
-story-teller who can tell both common sense stories and not common sense
-stories? No! Live! Live and be happy!”
-
-“Alas!” replied the lovely Pussyanita. “I cannot be happy when so many
-of my kind are in danger. Oh, take back your cruel command! Let our
-whole race live!”
-
-“I do take it back,” answered the king. “For your sake the whole race
-shall live.”
-
-                  *       *       *       *       *
-
-The cruel command was taken back. The whole race of cats were allowed to
-live. Those which were “white, or yellow, or which had more white or
-yellow hairs than dark ones,” all these as well as the “black, Maltese
-and gray,” were for Pussyanita’s sake allowed to live.
-
-                  *       *       *       *       *
-
-“Here, uncle Fred, is your Cats’ Arabian Nights Story Book,” said cousin
-Lucia, “all ready for the children when they shall come next summer with
-their fathers and mothers; and I hope they will have as much fun in
-hearing it as I had in writing it.”
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-<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Abby Morton Diaz</p>
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-<img src='images/cover.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/frontis.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p><span class='sc'>When She Was Sewing I Jumped Upon Her Shoulder.</span> (<i>Page <a href='#p054'>54</a>.</i>)</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c000' />
-</div>
-<div>
-  <h1 class='c001'><span class='c002'>THE</span><br /><span class='c003'>CATS’ ARABIAN NIGHTS</span><br /><span class='c004'>OR</span><br />KING GRIMALKUM</h1>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c000'>
-    <div class='c005'><span class='c006'>BY ABBY MORTON DIAZ</span></div>
-    <div class='c005'><span class='c007'><i>PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED</i></span></div>
-    <div><span class='c007'><i>BY FRANCIS, BOZ, PALMER COX, AND OTHERS</i></span></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id003'>
-<img src='images/publogo.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c005'>
-    <div>BOSTON</div>
-    <div><span class='c008'>D. LOTHROP COMPANY</span></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c009'>
-    <div><span class='sc'>Copyright, 1881,</span></div>
-    <div><span class='sc'>by</span></div>
-    <div><span class='sc'>D. Lothrop Company.</span></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c009' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 class='c010'>CONTENTS.</h2>
-</div>
-<table class='table0' summary=''>
-<colgroup>
-<col width='85%' />
-<col width='14%' />
-</colgroup>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'>&nbsp;</td>
-    <td class='c012'><span class='sc'><span class='xsmall'>Page.</span></span></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>King Grimalkum and Pussyanita</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p009'>9</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Story of Pinky-White</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p014'>14</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Story of Black Velvet</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p044'>44</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>What Snowball told</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p067'>67</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>Madame Pussy Hunter’s Story</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p071'>71</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Spry White Kitten’s Story</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p077'>77</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>Mrs. Beulah Black’s Story</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p083'>83</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>Tweedledum and Tweedledee</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p102'>102</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>Story of Mistress Tabby Furpurr</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p119'>119</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Story of the Feeble Cat and her Nine Lives</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p141'>141</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Story of the two Charcoals and the four Spekkums</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p169'>169</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Story of the Janjibo and of the Frog and the Rat</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p190'>190</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>What the Mother Rat told</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p198'>198</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>A Spinning Story</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p214'>214</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Blind Mice Story</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p215'>215</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Air-Ball Story</span></td>
-    <td class='c012'><a href='#p216'>216</a></td>
-  </tr>
-</table>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div  class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i007.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p><span class='c013'>How It Happened.</span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>One evening when a company of children and older people were
-looking at funny cat-pictures and telling cat-stories, a little ten-year-old
-girl asked: “Why can there not be a Cats’ Arabian Nights
-Story Book?”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“There would have to be a Cat King, or Emperor, or Sultan,”
-said her next older sister.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“And a Cat Queen, or Empress, or Sultaness,” said their cousin
-Joe, the sailor.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“And she would have to go on, and on, and on, and on, and on,
-and on, and on, telling stories in order to save her own life,” said
-their cousin Lucia.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I propose,” said uncle Fred, “that cousin Lucia put together a
-Cats’ Arabian Nights for little children, and have it ready to read
-to our little children when they all shall come next summer with
-their fathers and mothers.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Oh yes! Yes! Do! Pray do! Won’t you do it? Say you
-will! Say you will!” cried many voices.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I think it will be fun to do it,” said cousin Lucia, “if you allow
-me to put in some make believe and nonsense, if I want to.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Certainly!” was the cry. “Put in anything. Anything you
-please!”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>Cousin Lucia said she was willing to try, and thus it happened
-that the summer-children and others got a story book beginning,
-as all story books should begin, with—once upon a time.</p>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c000' />
-</div>
-<div id='p009'  class='figcenter id005'>
-<img src='images/i009a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p><span class='c016'>King Grimalkum and Pussyanita;</span><br /><br /><span class='c017'>OR,</span><br /><br /><span class='c018'>The Cats’ Arabian Nights.</span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='c014'>
-  <img class='drop-capi' src='images/i009b.jpg' width='200' height='200' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi1_2'>
-ONCE upon a time the aged Tommobus,
-King of the Cats, went forth a
-hunting and returned with a wound
-which caused his death. So Tommobus
-died and Grimalkum the Powerful
-became King in his stead.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>King Grimalkum was of course jet black all over
-without a single white hair, or he could not have been
-made king, and his eyes were of the true royal yellow.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>The first act of King Grimalkum’s reign was one of
-cruelty. He sent forth an order declaring that black,
-maltese, and gray, were the only colors to be allowed for
-cats, and that all cats which were white or yellow, or
-which had more white or yellow hairs than dark ones
-should not be permitted to live. Judges were appointed
-to measure the spots.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>This order caused great affright among the lighter
-cats. The wholly white and wholly yellow hid themselves
-or fled to distant places, and the partly white and
-partly yellow went in haste to have their dark spots
-measured by the judges.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>Among those who came before the judges was Pussyanita,
-a beautiful creature just out of kittenhood. Her
-playfulness and sweet disposition made her beloved by all.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>Alas! it was soon made known by the judges that the
-dark of Pussyanita measured many less hairs than her
-white ones. This caused great sorrow, and King Grimalkum
-was begged to spare her life.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Spare her life! Not if she were twenty Pussyanitas!”
-cried the King; which was a foolish answer,
-since she could not have been twenty Pussyanitas, or even
-nineteen.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>Now this sweet and gentle creature was so much
-beloved, that no one could be found willing to hurt a
-single hair of her. When King Grimalkum heard this
-he became furious with anger, and commanded that she
-be brought to him at once, saying that he himself would
-attend to the business, and make quick work of it. So
-the lovely Pussyanita was brought before the King.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>Her loveliness did not soften his heart; on the contrary
-he was made more furious than ever by seeing that she
-sat licking her fur as quietly as if sitting in her own
-sunny garden spot.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“What are you doing that for, you silly thing?” he
-cried. “Don’t you know you have but a few moments
-to live?”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Yes, your majesty,” replied the lovely Pussyanita,
-“but I cannot endure a speck of dirt, and with good
-reason, for in me you see a descendant, and great, great,
-great, great, great, twenty-seven times great grandchild
-of the unhappy and happy Pinky-white. Your majesty
-must have heard of Pinky-white.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Never,” said the king, sternly. “But why do you call
-her unhappy and happy? There is no sense in that.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She was not unhappy and happy at the same time,”
-said Pussyanita. “She was first unhappy and afterwards
-happy.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“How was that?” asked the king. “And supposing
-you <i>are</i> the great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven
-times great granddaughter of Pinky-white, what has that
-to do with your being unable to endure a speck of dirt?”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>Said the lovely Pussyanita, “It would give me pleasure,
-your majesty, to explain why my great, great, great, great,
-great, twenty-seven times great grandmother was first
-unhappy, and why she was afterwards happy, also supposing
-I <i>am</i> the great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven
-times great granddaughter of Pinky-white, what that has
-to do with my being unable to endure a speck of dirt; it
-would give me pleasure, I say, to explain all this, but it
-would take a longer time than I have to live.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Time shall be granted you,” said the king, “for I am
-curious to know why your great, great, great, great, great,
-twenty-seven times great grandmother Pinky-white was
-unhappy and why she was happy, and to know why your
-being her great, great, great, great, great, twenty-seven
-times great granddaughter should be a reason why you
-are unable to endure a speck of dirt.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“At your majesty’s request,” replied Pussyanita, “I
-will tell you the story of my great, great, great, great,
-great, twenty-seven times great grandmother Pinky-white,
-as she herself told it, when ordered to do so, at Lady
-Yellow-paw’s famous party.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Stop!” cried the king. “Why was your great, great,
-great, great, great, twenty-seven times great grandmother
-Pinky-white ordered to tell her story at Lady Yellow-paw’s
-famous party? Who was Lady Yellow-paw? Why was
-her party famous?”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Please your majesty,” replied Pussyanita, “I shall be
-happy to explain to your majesty who was Lady Yellow-paw,
-and why her party was famous, and why my great,
-great, great, great, great, twenty-seven times great grandmother
-Pinky-white was ordered to tell her story at that
-party, but your majesty must perceive that to do all this
-will require much time.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Begin then!” cried the king. “Begin with your
-Lady Yellow-paw and her famous party, and then go on to
-your twenty-seven times great grandmother; and do not
-waste time waiting or waste words in the telling.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>The lovely Pussyanita bowed and began with Lady
-Yellow-paw and her famous party, and then went on to tell
-the story of Pinky-white as told by herself at that famous
-party.</p>
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i013.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div id='p014'  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i014.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p><span class='c019'>The Story of Pinky-White.</span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>“The first that I knew of myself, I found myself by
-the side of my mother, among some hay in a basket
-along with three other kittens of my own age and size.
-Two of our number were quickly stolen from us. It will
-thus be seen that I had scarcely begun to live before I
-began to be unhappy. As I grew older I became more
-and more unhappy, for the place was cold, the floor was
-hard, our mother cuffed us, and girl-Mary, who owned
-us, knew not the best way of stroking.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i015.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Girl-Jane and Girl-Mary.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day when girl-Mary sat by our basket, girl-Jane
-came down there bringing her own cat and kittens. Girl-Jane
-had called to see us many times, and I had been
-pleased with the looks of her face, and the sounds of her
-voice, and the touches of her fingers; and she knew the
-best way of stroking.
-“Girl-Jane was smaller than girl-Mary, but she knew
-more. Girl-Jane said she wanted girl-Mary to change
-kittens with her. She wanted me and Minnie because
-we were whiter than her kittens.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘No, Jane,’ said girl-Mary, ‘I can’t change, for you
-know mine are all named, and besides your cat would
-not like it. She knows what we are talking about.
-Don’t you see how anxious she looks?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It made me unhappy to hear this. I wanted to go
-with girl-Jane, away from the cold place, and the hard
-floor, and my cross mother and be stroked the best way.
-Minnie too wished to go. She cried when girl-Mary
-gave back the other kittens. As for me, I could only
-turn away and hide my sorrowful face.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“My next unhappiness was the unhappiness of being
-whipped with a rod. An old lady wished for a cat to
-catch her mice and thought she would take a kitten
-and teach it to behave well. I was carried to her home.
-I had here a warm place, and a carpet, and the old lady
-did not stroke at all, so that I was not made unhappy
-by bad stroking. But my unhappiness was great, on
-account of the rod. It was rod here and rod there; rod
-on the pantry shelf and rod on the chair-cushion; rod
-on the parlor sofa and rod on the best bed; rod at the
-milk pitcher, and rod at the custard pie.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i018.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Well Made for Catching.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A greater unhappiness must now be told. For this
-greater unhappiness was the cause of another unhappiness
-even greater than this—oh, very much greater!
-It was the cause of a long and dreadful unhappiness in
-which I nearly starved to death. It was something
-which would make any and every cat unhappy. It
-was this. I could not catch well. Mice, birds, moles,
-bats, squirrels, rabbits, almost always got away from
-me. I think I must have been born short-clawed.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“In a corner of the
-garden was a chicken-coop.
-This chicken-coop
-was well made
-for catching. It
-would seem that all
-a cat need do was
-to lie quietly on top,
-looking over the
-edge, and when a
-chicken popped out,
-spring and catch it. Any other cat would have done
-all this. The next house cat did do all this. I did not
-do all this. I lay quietly on top of the chicken-coop. I
-looked over the edge, and when a chicken popped out
-I sprang. I did everything the next house cat did
-<i>except</i> to catch the chicken.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id008'>
-<img src='images/i019.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Did My Best.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I had the same luck in fishing. There was a stream
-at the bottom of our garden and at its edge were large
-mossy rocks on which
-a cat might stretch
-herself in the sun, or
-if the day were hot
-she might lie in their
-cool shade. Trees
-grew near by and any
-other cat would have
-often caught a bird
-among their branches.
-The next house cat
-did this. I did not
-do this. Any other
-cat than myself would
-have now and then
-caught a fish in the stream at the foot of the rocks. The
-next house cat did this. I did not do this. I often
-lay close to the water—as shown how to do by the
-next house cat, and watched the fishes as they glided
-past. When one rose to the top I did my best to catch
-it, but even did I have the luck to touch one, it was
-sure to slip out and away. I used to think sometimes
-that if fishes had not been made so slippery I could
-have held on, but then the next house cat held on to
-slippery fishes. I am almost sure I must have been
-born short-clawed.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i020.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Bold Little Thing!</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c015'>“As for squirrels and rabbits, they seemed at last to
-be not a bit afraid of me, even when I had become a
-full-grown cat. One saucy squirrel used to tease me by
-coming very near and then darting out of my reach.
-This squirrel became very bold. He even popped
-in at the doors and windows. One day when I was
-asleep on the sofa
-by the library window,
-he ran as near
-me as the back of
-the sofa—bold little
-thing! and by the
-time I had turned
-over he was out of
-the window, and I
-soon got sight of his
-bushy tail whisking
-through the tall tree-tops,
-and of his little bright eyes looking down at me
-through the leaves. He would not have got away so
-easily from the next house cat. There can be no doubt
-but that I must have been born short-clawed.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The next house cat caught mice. I did not. I might
-have caught some had not the mouse-holes been made
-so small. But then the next house cat had the same
-kind of mouse-holes I had.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i021.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Next House Cat</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Sometimes I thought if I had been a Tabby I might
-have caught as well as the next house cat. But then I
-could not be a Tabby.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day—oh unhappy day! the next house cat’s mistress
-came to see my mistress, and they talked of cats.
-I lay outside under the open window and heard every
-word, and understood. Mistresses, as you very well
-know, dear Lady Yellow-paw—as all of you at this
-famous party very well know—mistresses have no idea
-how much their cats can understand.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Said my mistress, ‘Pinky-white is the neatest cat that
-ever was seen. She will have no dirt on her fur. She
-licks off every speck. She keeps herself snow white.
-And I have taught her to behave well. I no longer
-keep a rod. But she catches no mice.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘You feed her too well,’ said the next house cat’s
-mistress. ‘Send her to Miss Rhody and get you a
-mouser. Miss Rhody is out of a cat and is waiting to
-find a neat one. Miss Rhody has managed cats these
-forty years and knows how to do it. Miss Rhody never
-feeds a cat. If it won’t catch mice she drowns it.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I will send Pinky-white to Miss Rhody to-morrow,’
-said my mistress.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“This frightened me. Oh what should I do? What
-could I do? In my agony of distress I ran round and
-round in a circle in the potato patch, tore up the squash
-vines, and at last I sprang over the high wall, and in that
-house and garden I was never seen more.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i023.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>But Alas! Three Others Were Gnawing the Bone.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Then began the terrible unhappiness of my life. No
-tongue can tell what I suffered. Hiding behind fences,
-under barns, in empty pig-styes, empty hen-houses; being
-driven from back doors, hooted at by boys, barked at by
-dogs, and hungry, hungry, hungry, oh so hungry!—for I
-could not catch well—and always dirty! Ah! none
-who have not felt it can know the unhappiness of a cat
-without a home!</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One night I thought surely I should taste a bit of meat.
-A black-and-white kitten kindly told me of a large bone
-she had seen in a yard, and we scampered to that yard.
-But alas! three others were already gnawing the bone
-and there was nothing on the bone, for a tommy cat had
-kept the others away till he had eaten off all the meat
-and then he sat seeing them gnaw the bare bone. I did
-not gnaw. I did not wish to gnaw bare bone.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day a dreadful thing happened to me. It was
-when I was hungrier than I had ever been before, though
-I had been very hungry. I was so hungry I thought I
-could not live, and I went into the fields to try to catch
-something. It was a silly thing for me to try to catch a
-rat when I was short-clawed.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I did. A great rat went into a field and I thought, oh if
-I could only get that rat! I <i>must</i> have that rat! I <i>must</i>!</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I put myself down flat and crept behind that rat.
-He went creeping through some wheat and corn and
-I crept behind, quicker than he, for I could creep quicker.
-He went up a large stalk to his nest. I sprang up and
-grabbed him, but alas! I could not take good hold and
-he got away and sprang at me and the mother rat sprang
-out at me and they bit me, and would have killed me, but
-I got away and ran with all my might, and lay down
-under some bushes, and pretty soon that same black and
-white kitten came and licked the blood off me and
-brought me a mole to eat, or I never should have
-stirred from that spot.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As the weather grew colder I suffered more and
-more. I longed for a home.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Often at evening I ran behind persons hoping to be
-invited to their houses, but they always drove me back.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“During all this time I was obliged to endure the distress
-of knowing that my fur was not perfectly clean.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When winter came my unhappiness was greater than
-it had ever been before, though it had already been very
-great.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But one day, oh joyful day! my unhappiness came to
-an end, oh joyful end! I will tell how this happened.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i027.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>He Went Up a Large Stalk to His Nest.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i029.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Kind Maiden.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The ground was covered with snow, slosh and mud.
-I had been running hither and thither, under barns, in
-coal cellars, and in other places trying to catch something,
-but having had the misfortune, as I have already
-told your ladyship, the misfortune of being born short-clawed,
-I had caught nothing. Begrimed with dirt,
-hungry, cold, forlorn,
-I was on my
-way to my jumping
-spot. This was
-the corner of a wall
-near a back door.
-It was also near to
-some bushes and
-trees all snugly
-fenced in, and under
-these I had often
-hid myself and
-tried to clean my
-fur and watched
-for the back door
-to open. I called it
-my jumping spot
-because sometimes
-I jumped
-from that spot and
-got in at the back
-door and snatched
-a bit from the
-plate of the cat which belonged to the house. Sometimes a
-kind maiden had thrown me scraps from one of the windows.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Now just as I was to jump from my jumping
-spot I saw this kind maiden coming down the steps.
-She had her pet kitten in her arms and was tending
-it with care. ‘Oh pet kitten! pet kitten!’ I
-mewed to it. ‘How little you know the unhappiness of a
-cat without a home!’ Mewing this, I hung my tail and
-was slinking out of sight when I heard these words.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Puss! Puss! Pussy! Pussy! Puss!’ How I wished
-I could think they were spoken to me! ‘Pussy! Poor
-Pussy! Here Pussy!’ I turned my head, but kept
-moving. ‘Pussy! Pussy! Pussy! Puss! Poor Pussy!
-Pussy! Pussy! Here Pussy! Poor Pussy!’ I stopped.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Pussy! Here Pussy! come Pussy!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Yes! they were—they were spoken to me! She was
-looking at me! ‘Good old Pussy! come here, good
-old Pussy!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She held out her hand. I dared not go. She went in
-and placed a saucer of milk on the kitchen hearth, called
-me and left the door open, and went to another room. I
-crept in to the hearth, and lapped, lapped, lapped, oh how
-I did lap! No tongue can tell the sweetness of that milk!</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i031.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>She Took Me Up.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As soon as I had eaten the milk I examined the
-things in the room, then I rolled over and over on the
-door mat to get the coal dust off, then I sat on the hearth
-and licked myself clean. The cook came in and shook
-the broom at me and cried: ‘Scat! Scat!’ Just then
-the kind maiden showed her face at the door. ‘Here’s a
-strange cat!’ the cook said to her. ‘We don’t want
-another cat!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Why! how white and clean she has made herself,’
-said the maiden. ‘She is a neat cat. I have often seen
-her cleaning herself out under the bushes. I mean to
-keep her. She is just the cat for poor Ellen.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I went and rubbed against her clothes, rubbed hard, and
-tried to purr loud enough to make her understand that I
-said in purr language, ‘I love you, love you. Don’t send
-me away!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Oh the happiness of a cat with a good home! I had
-now a good home. I was held in laps, stroked well,
-talked to, even kissed. I had warm milk, meat scraps,
-and plenty of fish. I was not expected to catch. I wonder
-why cats are almost always expected to catch.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I went every day to see poor Ellen. I used to go up
-after breakfast and scratch the door and get myself let
-in. When she combed her hair I sat close to her looking-glass,
-and looked at her while she combed her hair, and
-when she sat down to rest I lay on the floor and waited,
-and when she put on her shoes I kept at her feet, and
-rubbed her feet, and then I rubbed against her a good
-deal and purred to be taken up, and she took me up.
-Poor Ellen could not walk much but she could hold me.
-She liked me because I kept myself so clean and white.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id005'>
-<img src='images/i034.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Hen’s Lesson in Neatness.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The maiden said she never before saw a cat which
-could not endure a speck of dirt. She said she believed
-I taught her other cats to be neat. This might not
-have been true, but it was certainly true that while I was
-with them the other cats were very careful to clean
-themselves after eating. One day she called the family
-to see us. ‘Look!’ she cried. ‘Look at my cat that
-cannot endure a speck of dirt! I do believe that rooster
-has brought his hen to make her take a lesson in
-neatness.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“This might not have been true, either. He might
-have brought her to make her take a lesson in neatness,
-or he might have brought her for the scraps we often left.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Speaking of hens, a chicken made something happen
-to me which does not often happen to a cat. Our hen
-hatched out a brood of chickens and while they were
-little she was carried off by a fox. All the chickens died
-except two, and one of these had a weak throat. When
-the fox carried off the hen he stepped on that little
-chicken’s neck and it had a weak throat ever after. One
-day when I was in a far corner of the garden I heard a
-curious noise like a choking, or a peeping, but more like
-a choking than a peeping. I watched, and presently that
-little chicken came out of the grass. I should have
-sprung upon it if I had not seen that it was in distress
-and was coming to me for help. It had got a bug stuck
-in its throat. It came close to me and I licked it, and
-purred to it and tried to cover it over with myself just as
-its own mother used to. Pretty soon it swallowed that
-bug.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“After this it often came to me to be licked and
-purred to when it had a bug or a worm stuck in its
-throat, and at last it brought the other chicken, and I
-tried to be a mother to them both, for my dear little
-kittens had all been sent away. The other chicken
-grew faster than the
-first one; it had a strong
-throat to swallow with.
-I took great care of
-them both and licked
-them clean, for I could
-not bear a speck of dirt
-on them any more than if they had been my kittens.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i036.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Tried to Be a Mother to Them Both.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Now when the maiden saw me doing this she told
-her brother that if I could live peaceably with chickens I
-could with birds, and that she meant to try me. She
-first fed me well then brought to me a tame bird. Its
-wings had been clipped so that it could not fly and it was
-very hungry. It was afraid of me and it hopped round
-crying its bird kind of cry. But I did not touch it and
-when it saw me licking the chicken it hopped near me to
-get some rice which both the chickens were eating. In
-a few days the bird and I were good friends. He let me
-lick him and he used to sit on my head and sing, and we
-all ate our meals together until the chickens died. The
-first one died of its weak throat and the other died of the
-bite of a cat. One day a girl brought her cat to see us.
-She kept her up high on her shoulders, away from us, but
-when that other chicken put its head out to pick up a
-bug, that cat jumped down quick and caught that chicken
-by the head, and it died afterwards.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i037.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Happy Family.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But before these died the maiden and her brother
-tamed some young guinea pigs and some young white
-mice, and made them grow up friends. They stayed in a
-pen close to ours until we all became acquainted with
-each other and then the slats between the pens were
-taken off, and the two pens were made into one and we
-all lived together. I must own that at first I did wish to
-catch a mouse just for the sake of catching one, and
-though born short-clawed I could no doubt have caught
-one in a pen, but the maiden thought I might have such
-a wish and pared my claws. I was very happy with my
-new friends. After I knew the little mice I had no wish
-to catch them. I played with them and let them run
-over my back. When one comes to know mice, one
-likes their company and finds them very agreeable and
-playful and lively.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The maiden’s brother said they might as well have a
-Happy Family, and he trained some big birds and other
-birds and they came to live with us and we were a very
-Happy Family.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When the maiden and her brother went away to live
-in another place they sold us to a showman to put in his
-show. The showman travels about the country showing
-his show. A few days ago the wagon we were in upset
-and our door came open. The birds flew away, the mice
-hid under a rock and the guinea pigs ran into the woods.
-I am on my way back home, and I shall stay in this place
-only long enough to attend your ladyship’s famous party.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Said Lady Yellow-paw to my great, great, great, great,
-great, twenty-seven times great grandmother Pinky-white,
-when she had ended her story, said Lady Yellow-paw:
-‘Pinky-white, you do not speak of having a dog in your
-Happy Family.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id010'>
-<img src='images/i040.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Used to Play With a Dog’s Tail!</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She had hardly said this before a tittering, chuckling,
-clicking noise was heard and out spoke a pert little
-spotted black-and-white kitten and
-said, ‘Te! he! he! I used to play
-with a dog’s tail! A black, peeked-nosed
-dog’s tail, and his name was
-Trippy; and he was good to me.
-He had a curly tail.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Silence!’ cried the spotted black-and-white
-kitten’s mother. ‘Don’t
-you know better than to speak up at
-a famous party—a little thing like you? Silence!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Trippy liked me after you went away,’ cried another
-kitten; a white one. ‘He liked me better than he liked
-you. He let me play with his ears, and sleep on his
-neck, and he cried for me when I
-was out of his sight. When somebody
-threw me in the water, Trippy
-took me out with his mouth.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id010'>
-<img src='images/i041.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>He Took Me Out.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“This kitten’s mother was not at
-the party, but its snappish old aunt,
-Black Velvet, was there and she gave
-it a smart box on the ear. ‘It is a
-pity,’ said she, ‘if at a famous party like this we
-older ones cannot be heard for the noise of these
-pert little minxes. I myself could tell a strange
-story; a story stranger far than even the one just heard
-from that very neat puss, Pinky-white, with her Happy
-and her Unhappy, and her Not a Speck of Dirt! Was
-she blown off a tree in a whirlwind? Answer me that; or
-did she go to sea in a baby’s crib? Answer me that.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Said Lady Yellow-paw to Black Velvet, ‘Let me hear
-your strange story, how you were blown off a tree in a
-whirlwind, and how you came to go to sea in a baby’s
-crib.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Here the cat that hadn’t common sense rushed
-round the ring and stood on her head and said, ‘I can
-tell the strangest story of all, for I can tell why I haven’t
-got common sense.’”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>When the lovely Pussyanita had told thus far she
-stopped suddenly and said to King Grimalkum, “I beg
-your majesty’s pardon. Oh King Grimalkum, you
-only wished to hear the story of my great, great,
-great, great, great, twenty-seven times great grandmother
-Pinky-white, and I have told, besides this, of the spotted
-black-and-white kitten who played with the peeked-nosed
-little black dog’s tail, and of the white kitten he took out
-of the water, and have also spoken of Black Velvet who
-was blown off a tree in a whirlwind and afterwards went
-to sea in a baby’s crib, and of the cat who hadn’t common
-sense—I will say no more.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“You shall say more,” said King Grimalkum, sternly.
-“I can never close my eyes to slumber until I know how
-it happened that Black Velvet was blown off a tree in
-a whirlwind and afterwards went to sea in a baby’s
-crib.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A baby’s crib is a strange thing to go to sea in; why
-not in a boat? or in a tub? or even on a board? Why
-go to sea at all, when there is plenty of ground, and
-when cats hate water? And as for that other cat, why
-had she not common sense? She needed common sense.
-Every cat needs common sense.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I can tell your majesty in a few words why the
-cat that hadn’t common sense hadn’t common sense,”
-replied Pussyanita. “It was because she lost it.
-Do you ask how? I answer by a looking-glass and a
-clock.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When quite young she looked in a looking-glass
-and saw herself there, and thought it was another cat
-staring at her, and got mad at that other cat, and flew at
-it, and broke the glass, and frightened herself so that she
-ran all over the house and when she came to the
-clock the clock door was open and she jumped in. The
-clock door got shut and she had long to stay there, and
-the noises in the clock almost made her crazy, and she
-never had common sense afterwards. This tells why the
-cat that hadn’t common sense hadn’t common sense,”
-continued Pussyanita; “but to tell all about Black Velvet,
-and how it happened that she was blown off a tree in
-a whirlwind, why she went to sea at all when there was
-plenty of ground and cats hate water, will take a longer
-time than I have to live.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Time shall be granted you,” cried King Grimalkum.
-“Go on! go on at once!”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>The lovely Pussyanita then went on, and went on
-at once, to tell the Story of Black Velvet as told by
-herself at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party.</p>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div id='p044'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i044.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Story of Black Velvet.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>“I was born in a barn. My brothers and sisters were
-born in the same place. There were four of us, all of the
-same age and size. As soon as we could run our mother
-took us all over the great barn-country. She did everything
-for our good. She showed us the holes and told
-us which were mouse-holes and which were rat-holes.
-She showed us how to spring and how to catch, and how
-to hold. She brought us many kinds of eatable bugs
-and taught us to snap at flies and to beware of wasps.
-At night she went forth to hunt for us the slippery mole
-which slips so swiftly through the grass. At day she
-purred us sweetly to sleep, or sometimes she let us go
-with her to the wheatfields and get a peep at the moles
-and watch the field mice running up and down the
-wheat stalks.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i045a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Moles.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c015'>“We lived in the hayloft and oh what frolics we used
-to have! What frolics! What frolics! We raced, we
-scampered, we skipped, we hopped, we tumbled over each
-other, we tumbled
-over ourselves, we
-chased each others’
-tails, we chased our
-own tails, we played
-hide-and-seek in the
-hay, we scrambled up
-the beams, we ran
-along the rafters, we
-peeped down, we took
-turns sitting in our
-sunbeam—I speak
-now of a sunbeam which shone through a knot-hole.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id010'>
-<img src='images/i045b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>With Her Eyes Half Shut.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Our mother liked to curl herself up and sit with her
-eyes half shut watching our
-sports. She would sit a long,
-long time, scarcely moving,
-except to stir the end of her tail.
-We were happy to have her
-near us. She was gentle in her
-manners, though of course
-when she was watching, or catching, or holding, she looked
-fierce. Any cat would do so. She was not one of the cross
-kind, always cuffing and boxing and snapping and
-growling and spitting. She never punished us but once
-and that was when we were very little. We fell down
-the crooked stairs which led up to our home. She had
-always made us keep away from the small ends of the
-crooked stairs
-because there
-was no room
-there to put
-our paws.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i046.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Watching a Mouse.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day our
-mother had
-been watching
-a mouse
-at the bottom
-of the crooked
-stairs while we
-played at the
-top. I hopped
-too near the
-small ends and
-peeped down and my brothers and sisters hopped at me,
-and down we all went, heels over head. Our mother was
-angry, for she lost the mouse. We went without our dinner
-and had other punishment which I need not mention.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i047.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>White Satin at Home.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Now the noise we made in falling down and in being
-punished was heard by some girls playing on the barn
-floor and they scrambled up a ladder to find out what was
-the matter. When one of the girls who climbed up the
-ladder saw me she said, ‘Oh! oh! A black kitten! Do
-give it to me! She will make three! Then I shall have
-three black ones and three white ones!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Yes! do take her!’ said the other girl. ‘If you
-don’t take her she will be drowned.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The next day I was put in a box with holes in the
-cover and carried a long, long way to a strange place.
-This made me sorrowful, but still I was glad not to be
-drowned, and after the first day the five other kittens
-began to be friendly, and the two black ones were glad I
-came, for there were then as many black ones as white
-ones. I was named Black Velvet to match White Velvet.
-The others were Black Floss and White Floss and Black
-Satin and White Satin.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“White Satin used to run away and go home to her
-mother and her sisters. She had a gray mother and two
-gray sisters. Sometimes we went with her. She liked
-to play with her sisters and show them her ribbon. Our
-mistress wished us not to go and tried to keep us in the
-house. I did not like this, I wanted to scamper across
-the garden, or down to the river, or across a field to an
-old barn. I peeped all about and found good places to
-get out by. Then I used to coax White Velvet, and
-White Floss, and White Satin, and Black Floss, and
-Black Satin to go. I always went first and they followed.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i050.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>They Looked Down Upon Us.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“There were two gray kittens living in the barn, and
-the first day we went there these two ran and jumped into
-a wheelbarrow and
-looked down upon
-us. Pretty soon they
-began to stretch out
-their necks, and
-shake their tails.
-Then they crept
-down, then they
-crept towards us, and
-began to glare and
-spit, and sputter, and
-their tails grew so
-big we thought we
-had better go home.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“We liked to go
-to the barn on account
-of the chances to catch mice. The gray kittens flew
-at us every time we went, and at last one of them hit White
-Velvet in the eye and made it bleed. Our mistress kept us
-in the house after that, but we had fun racing over the beds
-and playing in the curtains. We played in the curtains so
-much that our claws had to be cut at the points. We
-were almost as well treated as children. Our milk was
-warmed, we had plenty of squash, and fish, and a good
-deal of chicken meat. Catnip was brought for us. We
-had each a basket to sleep in, and the baskets were
-trimmed with ribbons and had cushions. We had
-ribbons on our necks; the catnip was good.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But I did not like staying in the house all the time
-and every chance there was I jumped out at an open window
-or door, and White Velvet, White Floss, White Satin,
-Black Floss and Black Satin all jumped and went wherever
-I went. But after the Great Whirlwind, I was kept
-in the house. I will now speak of the Great Whirlwind.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It was a cold day and it seemed as if a door never
-would be left open, but one was left open at last, and out
-I went, and out went White Velvet, White Floss, White
-Satin, Black Floss and Black Satin after me. We raced
-across the fields to the barn. The gray kittens were not
-at home and we watched mouse-holes, and chased mice till
-a man came and drove us out and shut the door tight.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i052.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>We Saw a Great Dog Coming.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The wind blew; the sky was dark; the sun did not
-shine. We felt rain drops. This set us scampering.
-When we were in the field we saw a great dog coming
-and we ran to a tree and scampered up. I stopped to
-spit at the dog and was the last one up. The sky grew
-blacker, the wind blew harder
-and harder. The dog lay
-down on the ground and
-howled. Not one of us durst
-come down. The rain came
-hard upon us. The tree
-branches whirled round and
-round. It was a great
-wind. It was a whirlwind.
-It blew off all the leaves
-that had been left on and then
-it blew us off. For it was a
-great wind. Yes, a whirlwind.
-A dreadful whirlwind. I hope,
-dear Lady Yellow-paw, that
-neither you nor any one at this
-famous party will ever know the
-feeling of being blown off a tree
-in a whirlwind. I hope you nor
-any one at this famous party will know the feeling of
-being in a tree in a whirlwind with claws that have
-been pared down at the points. None of our bones were
-broken. How thankful we all ought to be that we are cats
-and not children, for we have cushions on our feet, so that
-we can be blown down without having any bones broken.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“None of our bones were broken but we were drenched
-with the wet rain. We were almost dead with the fright
-and the wet rain and we crawled all the way home.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i053.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Off a Tree in a Whirlwind.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Our mistress was looking
-for us. She said, ‘Oh you
-naughties, come in quick!’
-We crawled in and she wiped
-us with a dry cloth and laid
-us in a row in front of the
-stove, and gave us a warm
-supper and then some catnip.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“After this she kept me in
-the house. Said she, ‘Black
-Velvet, you put mischief into
-the others’ heads and I will
-keep you in. Black Satin,
-Black Floss, White Velvet,
-White Floss and White
-Satin you may go. Black
-Velvet shall stay with me.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It was hard to see Black
-Floss, Black Satin, White
-Velvet, White Floss and White Satin skipping in the
-yard, over fences, up and down clothes-poles, and be
-myself shut up indoors. But how little we know what is
-best for us! One day those others did of themselves go
-to a corn-house, and there they tasted bad meat which
-had been put there to kill rats, and they all died! Every
-one, Black Floss, Black Satin, White Velvet, White
-Floss, White Satin, every one died. Oh how my mistress
-did cry! And I too. Yes, I was sad and lonely. I went
-crying round from room to room, calling for my lost
-playmates. I looked in all their baskets.</p>
-
-<div id='p054'  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i055.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>My Mistress.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“My mistress seemed to love me more than ever. ‘I
-have only you, now, Black Velvet,’ she would say. Then
-she would hug me and hug me. She let me do what I
-pleased. I had thick cream. When she was sewing I
-jumped on her shoulder and played in her hair, and I
-went to sleep in her hat, if I wanted to, and in her work-basket.
-When she went out to walk she used to take me
-with her and wrap me up in her apron, and talk to me.
-But when I grew to be a cat she made me a blanket of
-my own. It was a good one. It was my own blanket.
-She loved me a great deal.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I said at the beginning of my story that it is a
-wonderful story. You will say that this is true when
-you hear what happened to me next.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i056.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Felt Safe.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day the river grew very big and spread up to the
-houses, yes, up over
-the windows of the
-houses, and broke
-the houses in pieces.
-I was sleeping in a
-rocking chair and
-the water wet me
-and waked me from
-sleep and I sprang
-up on top the rocking
-chair back, and
-the water swashed
-and there was a great
-noise and the rocking
-chair went sailing
-off and many
-other things went,
-and the chair began
-to go down deeper
-and then I jumped
-off on to a bucket.
-Something hit that
-a knock and I had
-only time to catch
-hold of a box; a small one. There was just room to get
-all my paws on and I had to stick my back up high. I
-expected every moment to be drowned. I little
-thought I should
-live to tell the story.
-But a piece of board
-was knocked
-against me. I
-sprang upon that.
-Then came a chair.
-I sprang upon that.
-Then came something
-else; some
-thing wonderful,
-but I said at the
-beginning that this
-is a wonderful
-story. This next
-thing was a baby’s
-crib with the baby
-in it! The curtains
-were open and the
-baby was looking
-out. I jumped from the chair to the cradle and lay down
-on the baby. I was glad enough to get that resting place. I
-felt safe with the baby. Somebody would come to get
-the baby. The baby put out its hands and took
-hold of me.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I don’t know what became of that poor baby. The
-crib tipped over. I heard a man speak, and perhaps he
-went and got the baby. I was lucky enough to jump on
-to a firkin, and on this I floated down, down, down, down,
-I don’t know where, but I cried, cried, cried, oh how I
-cried!</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I bumped against something hard, something very
-big. I scrambled up. Men were on it, and a woman,
-and a girl, and boys. They clapped and shouted and
-laughed. Oh what a noise! Don’t people know that
-loud noises make our ears ache? Don’t they know that
-our ears are made to hear very little faint mouse-taps,
-butterfly-wing noises, and we can’t bear loud noises? No,
-they don’t know. But I must go on with my story.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i058.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Used to Get Into the Place Where the Girl Slept.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“That big hard thing was not a house nor a barn. It
-moved over the water. You cats that have lived only on
-ground cannot think how dreadful it is to stay in the
-midst of water. Not a bit of ground! No grass to eat.
-Oh I thought I should die for want of a bit of something
-green! No trees to climb! But there were some very
-high poles set for me to climb; poles taller than trees,
-and ropes and everything handy fixed for me to hang on
-by. I was treated well. The men fed me, the women
-fed me, the girl fed me, the boys fed me. The cook
-taught me some tricks which I shall be happy to show
-to those present at this famous party, if I shall be properly
-invited. A little girl held me and she put me around
-her neck for a comforter.
-I let her do
-it. The cook hung
-a bell round my
-neck. The noise of
-it pained my ears,
-and I was glad when
-the woman took it
-off. She took it off
-because I used to
-get into the place
-where the girl slept,
-and wake her up.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Now when the
-ship came to the
-ground the cook put
-me into a bag and
-got into a cart. He
-was going to give me away. Pretty soon I smelled grass.
-Then I scratched and cried. Oh how I did want a piece of
-something green and to roll in the grass! Every cat here
-knows it would be a hard thing to live without something
-green. I soon got something green, and plenty of it. The
-cook opened the bag a little, to show me to another man and
-I took a sudden spring and away I went, and the more he
-called, ‘Puss! Puss! Puss!’ the faster I ran, and at last
-I found myself all alone in the fields, in a strange country.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i059.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Two Live Things Sitting Together.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I rolled over and over, and tore up the grass, and ran
-up and down trees, and then I lay down behind a bush
-and watched to see if there were any moles or field mice
-in that country. Pretty soon I saw two live things
-sitting together. They looked like rats, but they had
-white on them.
-They were sitting
-in the sun. I was
-going to spring at
-them, but I stopped.
-I was in a
-strange country.
-How did I know
-if the creatures
-were good to eat?
-They might be
-bad as that bad
-meat which killed
-poor White Velvet, White Satin, White Floss, Black
-Satin, and Black Floss; or they might have dreadful
-teeth, or dreadful claws.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“While I was waiting a minute to think about it, I
-heard a sound in the grass; a creep, creep, creep, creeping
-sound in the grass. It was a cat. But she did not
-spring quick enough. They heard her and skipped out
-of sight quicker than a wink.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As the cat sprang past me I could see that she had
-no tail. ‘Poor thing,’ I said, ‘she has lost it in a trap!’
-Pretty soon I saw another cat without any tail. Then
-some kittens without any tails. I thought that must be
-a dreadful place for traps. I dared not step in the grass
-to hunt.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I got very hungry keeping still without hunting for
-mice and moles, and at last I went to a house. In the
-yard of the house a black-and-white cat without a tail
-stood and looked at me.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘What do you want
-here?’ said she.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I want to go in the
-house,’ said I.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Be off!’ said she.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I won’t!’ said I.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i060.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Black-And-White Cat.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Then she began to
-spit, and she flew at me, and I flew at her. A woman
-came running out and took me up. ‘Oh you beautiful
-creature!’ she said. ‘You’ve got a tail! I’m so glad to
-get a cat with a tail.’ I must tell you, dear Lady Yellow-paw
-and all present at this famous party that the cats of
-that strange place did not have any tails. ‘No tails!’
-cried Lady Yellow-paw and others. ‘How then do they
-show when they are glad and when they are mad?’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i062.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Mouse That Black Velvet Caught.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I said at the beginning, dear Lady Yellow-paw, that
-this is a wonderful story. Let me tell you that the
-cats of that place do not wish to have tails. ‘Not <i>wish</i>
-to have tails?’ cried Lady Yellow-paw and others at the
-famous party. No, your ladyship. But let us not be
-conceited and think our own ways are always the best.
-To be sure a tail does add to the good looks of a cat,
-still we all know that a tail <i>is</i> a great care; always likely
-to get rocked on, or stepped on, or pulled, and is sometimes
-in the way when you want to sit down. That
-no-tailed cat made my tail a way of hurting me. All
-present must have seen that its tip is gone, though all
-have been so polite as to seem not to notice this. It was
-the doings of that jealous no-tailed cat. She was jealous
-because so much notice was taken of me. She could not
-bear me to come into the house. She clawed, and bit,
-and spit at me so that my mistress had to let me sleep in
-the room with herself and her little boy. One night I did
-what pleased my mistress very much. One night a
-mouse jumped on her boy’s bed, and waked him up, just
-as I used to wake up that girl when I had that bell on
-my neck. I caught this
-mouse, and found him
-quite as good as any
-in our own country.
-My mistress praised me
-more than ever, after
-this, and held me, and
-stroked me a great deal,
-but her doing so made
-that other cat maul me
-worse than ever, and
-I should have run away if my mistress herself had
-not come away. My mistress came to this country and
-brought me with her. Here I am, out of reach of that
-jealous cat’s teeth and claws. Here I am well-fed and
-tended. Here I live an easy life. Yet still I am not
-happy. Would you know the reason why? My mistress
-has another cat, a partly white cat. People call
-her a beautiful cat. So she may be to any one who
-fancies white paws and white noses. I do not like to
-see my mistress hold that cat and stroke her. I am
-obliged to see it. I am obliged to see the boy like that
-cat; hug that cat; I am even obliged to see her allowed
-to jump up and eat milk from the same bowl with him,
-something <i>I</i> have never been allowed to do!</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i063.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Something Black Velvet Was Never, Never Allowed to Do.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“All this is hard to bear. I do not like to think about
-it, and to keep myself from thinking about it I employ
-myself in teaching the way of opening doors. Every cat
-should know how to open doors. There may be times
-in a cat’s life when she may save her life by knowing
-how to open a door. There are times in every cat’s life
-when she may get food by opening a door.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Here a number of cats sprang to their feet and began
-to tell of particular times when they had saved themselves
-and got food by knowing how to open doors.
-Among them was the cat that hadn’t common sense.
-‘One at a time, my dears,’ said Lady Yellow-paw.
-‘Snowball, will you begin?’”</p>
-
-<hr class='c020' />
-
-<p class='c015'>“But I humbly beg your Majesty’s pardon,” said the
-lovely Pussyanita to the King. “The particular times
-when all these saved themselves or got food by knowing
-how to open doors were not in Black Velvet’s story.
-You asked, oh King, for Black Velvet’s story. That is
-ended, I am silent.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“You shall not be silent!” thundered King Grimalkum.
-“Speak! As king of all the cats, I wish particularly to
-know the particular times when all those saved themselves
-and got food by knowing how to open doors. As king of
-all the cats, I should be well informed on all such matters.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i066.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>She Used to Sit on a High Wall.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“To tell you what you ask,” answered the lovely
-Pussyanita, “would take a longer time than I have to live.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Time shall be granted you,” said the king. “Begin
-without delay to tell what Snowball told.”</p>
-
-<div id='p067'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i067.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>What Snowball Told.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When my sister Lily and myself were quite young,
-but not very, the people who lived in the house began to
-talk of drowning us. Now all present at this famous
-party will agree with me that if we are to be drowned
-at all we should be drowned when we are too young to
-know anything about it. I suppose there is not one here
-present who would not rather have been drowned when
-she knew nothing about it, than to be drowned now.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When our mother heard drowning spoken of she took
-us under the barn, and there we stayed a long time. We
-lived under the barn. Our mother would not let us come
-out. She used to sit on a high wall and we wanted to,
-but she said dogs would get us and boys would scare us.
-A small boy used to come out there with his books and
-his slates and his other things, and this small boy crawled
-under the barn and found us and dragged us out, and then
-our mother moved back to the house to live. On the very
-day we moved back, I was put into a covered basket and
-sent away in a rattling thing called a carriage. The noise
-it made frightened me almost to death. I scratched the basket
-and clawed the cover, and stuck my paws through, and
-mewed and cried, for I was dreadfully frightened at the
-rattling! At last they put me in a house. I was afraid
-to stay in that house. Everything in that house was
-strange to me. The people were strangers. It seemed
-like a dreadful place. The people put their own things
-on all the good high places, and every time I jumped
-on a good high place,
-there would be a running
-and a screaming
-enough to scare you
-out of your senses.
-As if kittens would
-knock things off! As
-if kittens were clumsy
-as people and could
-not walk <i>between</i>
-things! You know kittens, and cats too, need high
-places to jump up to.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i068.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Just Right to Spring At.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“There was a small boy in the house and he had a
-whip. I need say no more. You all know or can understand,
-what it is to live in the house with a boy and a
-whip. But I was going to say that even the oldest of
-us have been kittens once and we know that a kitten
-must spring at things a-moving. I did. The boy rode on a
-wooden horse, and the horse had a tail just right to spring at.
-It was placed behind the boy so that he could not see me.
-But the people could, and they punished me for doing what
-I could not help doing. A kitten would not be a kitten did
-it hold back from springing at such a beautiful tail a-moving.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I was whipped and put down cellar a great many
-times and even when I had grown quite large; for I
-was always of a lively turn.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id011'>
-<img src='images/i069.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Curled Up on the Best Rug.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Oh what fun I had with the people after I learned to
-open the cellar door! Mornings they would say ‘I wonder
-who let the cat up?’ Sometimes
-just after I had been put
-down cellar for meddling with
-tassels or knitting work, they
-would find me on the best bed
-or in the best chair, or in the
-best room curled up on the best
-rug. At last these people took all their things and went
-away and left me there with nothing to eat. Every day
-I had to go forth to seek my food. Pinky-white has told
-you something of what this means. Hanging around
-back doors, kicked, starved, frozen, barked at by dogs,
-chased by cruel boys! Oh tongue cannot tell what I
-suffered from cruel boys! They yelled at me, they threw
-stones, they tormented me in every way they could.
-Just the sight of one would make me tremble. One
-day when I was on a clothes-pole I saw two boys coming,
-far away. They yelled at me and picked up stones.
-I scrambled down. I ran toward the house. I heard
-their shouts. I ran to the back door. The door was
-shut. I sprang up,
-caught the latch, the
-door opened, I ran in to
-a woman, looked in her
-face and said, ‘Oh do
-take care of me!’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i070.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Rat Family.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The woman was so
-much pleased with my
-opening the door that
-she invited me to live
-in that house, and I was
-glad enough to stay
-for there is a meat-shop
-in the house. I have lived there a very long time. I
-make myself useful by driving off cats and dogs that
-come to steal meat. Of course I never steal. I do not
-need to. I am fed so well that I never know what it
-is to be hungry, and have no wish for mouse-meat or
-rat-meat. In fact the rats and I are such friends, I sit near
-them in the garret and watch their goings on in their
-families, and they never mind me at all.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“My good fortune came from knowing how to open
-doors. I will say no more, for I know the company wish
-to hear Madame Pussy Hunter’s story.”</p>
-
-<div id='p071'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i071.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Madame Pussy Hunter’s Story.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I am chiefly an out-doors cat. I like to catch moles
-and field-mice and rabbits, and bugs, and butterflies. I
-like butterflies almost as well as Pussy Gray did. Poor
-Pussy Gray who was stung in the eye by a bumble-bee
-while watching for butterflies and went crazy! I am
-fond of birds too.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“In this I am different from the renowned Tabby Furpurr,
-who found out a way of not liking birds, and on
-that account had her picture taken and put in a frame!</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i072.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Just Dropping Off to Sleep.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I was always a butterfly hunter, but not always a
-mole hunter, a field-mouse
-hunter and rabbit hunter. I
-will tell you how I happened
-to become a mole hunter, a
-field-mouse hunter, and a
-rabbit hunter.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day I went out
-among some tall flower stalks
-to catch butterflies, and got
-very tired of jumping, and
-lay down to take a nap under
-the flower stalks. I was
-just dropping off to sleep
-when I heard a noise and
-looked up and saw my sister
-coming. She asked me to
-go to her house and get some
-cream. She knew where
-there was a good deal of
-cream in a good place.
-She wanted me to open the
-pantry door. As my sister
-was anxious for me to go, I went, and we both
-enjoyed a hearty meal. We crept out of the pantry and
-then softly under chairs and tables to the passage-way.
-In that passage-way was my sister’s kitten playing
-with a ball of yarn. She pawed it, and clawed
-it, and pushed it, and tumbled heels over head over
-it, as kittens will do—ah, we were all kittens once!
-and at last she pushed it into a room. We peeped
-in at the door and saw the kitten leave the ball suddenly,
-and pop behind the screen. Her tail was very
-big, and her back was up, so we knew something had
-frightened her, and crept in to see what had frightened her.
-In the middle of the room was a great chair, and from
-that chair was something hanging down, something
-furry. We went near to see what it could be. It
-looked like a dog’s head upside down. It was a dog’s
-head upside down. Cats that have always seen dogs’
-heads upside up, have no idea how a dog’s head looks
-upside down. This dog’s head was upside down and
-the whole dog was upside down; upside down and
-asleep.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i073.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Dog That Was Upside Down.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Both our tails began to grow big. We left the room
-quickly, and softly as possible, and ran through a long
-passage, then up-stairs, then through another long passage,
-and <i>then</i> we heard the dog coming, barking! We
-ran faster. We knew he was on the stairs; knew he
-was after us. We got to the end of a long passage.
-The bark of the dog sounded nearer and nearer. There
-was no way out of the passage. Oh what a moment that
-was! I saw a door. I sprang up twice, and opened it the
-second time trying. I tremble, even now, to think what
-might have become of us had not a window of that room
-been open, or had I not known how to open a door. We
-darted through that window, and went down by a water-spout.
-The dog looked out and turned and ran down-stairs,
-but by the time he was in the yard we were safe on a shed.
-Oh how thankful we ought to be that dogs cannot climb!</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I was saved, but in my haste I trod on a tack nail,
-and it stuck in my paw and made my paw in great pain.
-I went limping, and the pain of the paw made me sick.
-My dear mistress! How good she was to me! She
-took out the nail and bound up the sore place, and fed
-me with warm sweetened milk and water, or if I was
-thirsty, gave me cool, clear water to lap, and held me,
-and made for me a soft bed, and talked to me, and <i>poored</i>
-me. Oh how pleasant it is to be talked to and <i>poored</i>!</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I felt so grateful to my dear mistress that as soon
-as I was well I went out to catch everything I could
-for her—rabbits, moles, field-mice. That was why I
-became a hunter. Everything I could I brought in and
-laid at her feet, because I wanted to please her. I
-would not eat one of them until she told me I might.
-I never ate even a mouse until I had shown it to her.
-Sometimes I bring birds. She is not pleased with me,
-then. She scolds me when I bring birds. I don’t know why
-she scolds me for bringing birds. I should like to know
-the renowned Tabby Furpurr way of not liking birds.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>Scarcely had Madame Pussy Hunter finished when
-up sprang a Spry White Kitten and hopped out
-on three paws, and said: ‘<i>I</i> can tell a story of
-a door opening.’ Some of the older ones tried to hiss
-her down. She was asked if her story would tell how
-she lost her right fore paw. Upon learning that her
-story would tell how she lost her right fore paw, they
-asked to hear what the Spry White Kitten had to say.</p>
-
-
-<div id='p077'  class='figcenter id012'>
-<img src='images/i077.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Spry White Kitten’s Story.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i078a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>“It is a short story that I am going to tell, but I wish
-to tell it. I wish to say that for my part I have never
-found any good come from
-knowing how to open doors.
-Not that I know how, but
-my mother does. She opened
-a door the other day to show
-me some cream. It was butter-cream
-streaming down a
-butter-churn. She told me
-to jump up and lick, and I did, and a man
-came and boxed
-my ears and I have
-not heard well
-since.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id011'>
-<img src='images/i078b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Another
-time to
-please
-me, she
-opened
-a door
-and let
-me into a large dining-room
-that had
-long curtains just
-right to scratch and
-to climb up by, and a funny old feather hung over a funny
-old clock. I could go up on those good curtains, and jump
-to the clock and play with the feather. And one day I
-meddled with the clock to find out where its noise came
-from, and was caught and got the worst whipping I’ve
-ever had yet.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i079.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Cat With Her Ears Tied Up.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Then here is my brother Bobby hiding yonder behind
-Black Velvet. Why does he hide? His ears are tied up
-with strings. Bobby likes work-baskets. He teased our
-mother to let him into a room where there was a work-basket.
-He played in it, and the girl tied his ears with strings,
-and he ran round, and rolled, and could not get them
-off, and ran into a coal-hole, and stayed till he was very
-hungry, and when he went into the house he went to
-a boy that was sitting on the floor eating milk. That
-boy did not give him any milk. No. He took a great
-cloth and tried to wash Bobby’s paws in the milk!
-Bobby got away, and now he has come to this famous
-party with his ears in strings. A pretty state he is in
-to come to a famous party! We all know how dreadful
-it is to have our ears meddled with.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i082.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>It Got Hold of My Leg.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c015'>“But all this is nothing to what happened afterwards.
-My mother opened a door to let me into a room where
-there was a mouse-hole. Now a boy had put in that room
-a curious thing. I went close up to it to see what it was.
-It was a crab, but I did not know that. I was young.
-I never had seen a crab. I touched it to find what it
-was made of, and it got hold of my leg just above my
-paw. I never screamed so in all my life. Oh how I
-did scream! And no wonder. My leg was broke. My
-paw had to be taken off, and now I have to be three-pawed.
-Now I have
-to go limp, limp, hopperty
-limp! Only three
-paws to run away
-from cruel boys with,
-and barking dogs!
-Only three paws to
-climb with! Only
-three paws to claw
-with! No; as for me,
-<i>I</i> have never seen much
-good come from knowing
-how to open
-doors!”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘You had better sit down, Miss,’ exclaimed Black Velvet.
-‘Young people should be seen and not heard. We are
-speaking at this famous party of the good of knowing how
-to open doors—not of the bad. Mrs. Beulah Black is present,
-and has something to relate which all will like to hear.’”</p>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div id='p083'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i083.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Mrs. Beulah Black’s Story.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>“In me, my dear Lady Yellow-paw, you see a child
-of the unfortunate Pussy Gray who when watching for
-butterflies was stung in the eye by a bumble-bee and
-went crazy, and ran away. There were three of us born
-on the same day, namely: Lily, Dinah Dusky and myself,
-Beulah Black. Pussy Gray was one of the best of
-mothers. She herself cared neither for rats, mice, nor
-moles. She liked birds and bugs and was very fond of
-butterflies. But she would sit long watching at a hole to
-catch mice or moles for us, and then she would bring
-them to us, and show us how to play with them, and
-stand looking at us in her motherly way. She grew thin
-from staying in to take care of us. We were a quarrelsome
-set.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I don’t know what became of Lily, but Dinah Dusky
-went when she was very young to live in a corn store. I
-stayed at a house nearer my mother’s house, and it was
-well that I did, for at the time she got stung in the eye
-by a bumble-bee, she had another young family, and I
-was able to go in and take care of them, and to punish
-them when they needed punishment. I was then a mother
-myself with my first little brood around me.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i084.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I remember the day well. My mother left the family
-and went into the garden to catch butterflies. If she did
-not see any butterflies it was her custom to stand still
-and listen for the sound of their wings. She was doing
-so when that sad thing happened to her. My sister,
-Dinah Dusky, had come that day to see my dear little
-beauties and we two went out together to catch bugs for
-them. Our mother was in the garden not far from us.
-She stood stock still. She had heard the sound of a butterfly’s
-wings. An instant more and she would have
-turned her head.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i085.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Then it was that the bumble-bee stung her eye. She
-ran. We ran. We could not catch her. We could not
-think what made her behave so. She ran this way and
-that way, over fences, back again, through bushes, over
-bushes, across fields, and at last away she went out of
-sight and was never heard from afterwards. Every day
-my sister Dinah Dusky and I went forth to look for our
-mother, hoping to bring her home to her young
-family.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It was when we had been in the fields looking for her
-that we saved ourselves by my sister’s quickness in
-opening a door. I will explain how this happened.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id013'>
-<img src='images/i087.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Cat That Was Stealing Milk.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“My sister and I went into a swamp to look for our
-mother, and we caught sight of a rabbit there. We lay
-down close to the ground, and crept, crept, crept, softly
-along, not making a bit of noise. Sometimes we
-stopped creeping; then we crept; then we stopped; then
-we crept, getting all the time nearer and nearer. The
-rabbit was asleep part way under a log. We had crept
-very near when all at once we heard the bark of a dog.
-Dreadful sound! In an instant we were on our feet and
-running. We ran towards a house. At first the dog did
-not see us. Then he saw us and ran after us, barking. Oh
-how frightened we were! We ran faster but he ran
-faster than we. He came near us, barking, barking,
-barking, oh it was terrible! For he came so close to me
-that I felt his breath. He caught me by the back of the
-neck, and just then a boy called him off, and he dropped
-me and went to the boy. I ran on. My sister had gone
-far ahead. We ran towards the back of the house. The
-dog came again. We heard him coming afar off. He
-would not stay with the boy. I almost died with fright.
-There wasn’t a tree nor a clothes-pole near. But there
-was a door that my sister had opened before at times
-when it was necessary that she should get something to
-eat without being seen. She opened this door now, and
-frightened a cat that was there stealing milk out of
-a pitcher, and made her tip over the pitcher.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“We went in and ran through a back shed to the barn.
-I sprang up on a hay rack, and my sister—all at this
-famous party will be surprised to hear what my sister
-did. My sister sprang up on the horse’s back!</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“We were not a minute too quick. We just saved
-ourselves. The dog was close behind. But he could not
-get at us and he had to go away.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I have more to tell. That horse and my sister
-became friends. When he stayed in the barn she used
-to stay on his back. He liked to have her stay there.
-He could not bear to be without her. He was not easy
-unless she came and stayed on his back.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The man said it would not do. He said it would
-hurt the horse and they carried him far away.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Now comes the sorrowful part. My sister mourned
-so for the horse that she would not eat. She would only
-lap a little water sometimes. She grew weak and thin.
-She did not clean her fur. She would stay in the barn
-and lie down on the spot where the horse used to stand.
-At last she was seen no more and after a long time she
-was found, dead, high up on a haymow in a far
-corner!</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i089.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>My Sister Sprang Up on the Horse’s Back!</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“This is all I have to say, your ladyship, but my
-younger brother David is here. Though now bigger than
-I, he was once smaller. He was one of the young kittens
-our mother left when she went out to catch butterflies
-and was stung in the eye by a bumble-bee. David will
-tell you of a time when he opened a door and ran away,
-and why he ran away.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>All present said they would like to hear David’s Story,
-and he began as follows:</p>
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i091.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>David’s Story.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>“I was one of the young kittens Pussy Gray left when
-she went out to catch butterflies. My sister Beulah
-Black has told you what happened to Pussy Gray, how
-she went crazy and went nobody knew where, and was
-never heard from afterwards.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“My Sister Beulah Black had a young family of her
-own, and one day she tried to carry us to her house, in
-order that she might not have to be all the time running
-back and forth. It happened that I dropped into a hole,
-and she could not get me out. She had to leave me.
-Now this was lucky for me, for the others of my mother’s
-young family, and all but one of my sister Beulah
-Black’s young family were sent away and lost. I have
-often wondered why it is that so many little kittens are
-sent away and lost.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i092.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>She Took Turns Rocking Me and Her Dolly.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Only for falling in that hole I might not be here. But
-I came near dying there. When taken out I was almost
-starved to death. I could not move; I could not make a
-sound. Girl-Nellie took me out and kept me for her
-own. She made me a cotton-wool bed in a cricket, she
-covered me over
-with silk, she fed
-me with a spoon,
-she held me just
-as if I had been a
-baby. And when
-I grew larger she
-used to rock me
-in the baby’s cradle
-and sing to me.
-She took turns
-rocking me and
-her dolly, and when dolly was being rocked I sat
-and waited for my turn to be rocked and sung
-to. Oh, how I did love my little mistress! I wanted to
-sit on her lap. I wanted to be with her a great deal. I
-told her all this, though perhaps she never understood
-what I said. I knew the time for her to come home
-from school, and went always to meet her. She did not
-know how I knew the time. People do not know how
-cats know things. My dear mistress would not let boy-John
-torment me. Boy-John was not cruel, but he
-wished me to sit up on my hind legs, and to hold a
-stick, and to jump through a hoop. It was easy enough
-to do such things but I
-did not like to do them.
-Boy-John used to say to
-the baby, ‘Come Baby,
-bring David!’ I was so
-big then that baby could
-hardly lift me, but he
-would drag me, and push
-me, and try to lift me.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i093.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Could Hardly Lift Me.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Many at this famous
-party have spoken
-of what they have suffered
-from cruel boys and from dogs, but nobody
-as yet has spoken of a baby. Tongue cannot tell what
-I suffered from that baby. A baby will step on any part
-of a cat. A baby will sit on a cat. A baby does not
-mind what part of a cat it lifts up a cat by, whether by
-the tail or by a leg, or by the head. A baby will pull
-your ears, will stick its finger in your eyes, will even
-meddle with your smellers, and you must keep from
-touching it, because it is a baby.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I never did touch that baby to hurt it. I loved that
-baby. I kept my claws way in out of sight, and if I ever
-squealed it was sometimes when he sat down on me
-hard, and squelched the squeal out of me before I knew
-it.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I come now to something painful to speak of. You
-will be surprised to learn that I ran away from that dear
-Nellie mistress. This will now be explained.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Unhappily for me, I had great skill in charming
-birds, and I was as fond of birds as my mother
-Pussy Gray was of butterflies. I mean I was fond
-of them as food, not as friends. There was no cat
-anywhere around that could charm a bird as well as
-I could. I used to stay under a tree and when a bird
-came and sat on a bough I would look straight up at
-him, and then he could not fly away. He would cry,
-and flutter his wings, but he could not fly away. He
-would have to drop.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i095.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Dropped the Bird.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I used to carry the birds to my dear mistress, for
-I wanted to please her, and birds were the best things I
-could get. But she was not pleased; she scolded me.
-I could not understand why she praised me for catching
-a mouse and scolded me for catching a bird. A bird is
-better than a mouse. Pretty soon she began to do something
-besides to scold. I was punished in the way cats
-are punished. I need not tell. All at this famous party
-know. After I had been punished a great deal I kept
-away from trees. But one day I was in a window-seat,
-asleep. The window was swung open, and I lay there to
-enjoy the sunshine and fell asleep. The noise of a bird
-woke me. I stretched myself out flat and looked up.
-The bird was on a high window above. When I had
-looked at it a little while it began to cry, and then it flew
-down to the top of the window that was swung open. It
-flew lower and lower, and I made a spring and caught it.
-My mistress came in and I dropped the bird on the
-window-seat, and jumped down and crept away. I felt
-so ashamed I did not know what to do.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I was not whipped, but I was punished. I punished
-myself. I left that pleasant home and my dear mistress.
-You will understand why when I explain.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“That night my mistress’ mother said, ‘We cannot
-have David killing so many birds. Something must be
-done with him. I will get a boy to do something with
-him early in the morning.’ I knew what she said. I
-did not know by the way people know. I knew by the
-cat-way of knowing, and not by the people-way. All
-present at this famous party know how cats know what
-people say. I understood what my mistress said, but
-I kept still under a table, and when nobody was looking
-I crept under the chairs out into the back room, and
-opened two doors and ran away, far away, and for a long
-time I lived the dreadful life of a cat without a home.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day a man invited me to go home with him. He
-keeps a store. There are herring and eggs in the store.
-I have lived there quite a long time. I want to go back
-to my dear mistress, but I am afraid they will get a boy
-to do something with me. I like to suck eggs, though
-as my master keeps a stick I do not take any except the
-broken ones he gives me. When I tease for herring he
-gives me a piece. I watch people and if they touch
-anything that belongs to my master I lay my paw on
-them and speak.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Scarcely had David finished when out popped two
-gray little kittens, twins, both named Kittywinks, saying:</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘We are the Kittywinkses, and we’ve come to this
-famous party.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Lady Yellow-paw waved her paw and said: ‘One
-Kittywinks at a time, my dears.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i099.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Good Child-Baby.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One Kittywinks then said: ‘David talked about a
-child-baby. Call bad. Child-baby not bad. We’ve got
-a child-baby. He does not step on us. He does not sit
-down on us. He does not squelch us. He does not
-hurt. He touches us softly. He would never tie strings
-on our ears. He poors us, and strokes us, and lets us
-sit on chairs and sofas with him, and crawl all over him,
-and play with his curls, and play with his beads, and play
-with his playthings. He likes us, only he does not like to
-have us kiss him with our noses, but with our mouths,
-but we don’t know how to kiss with our mouths, and
-we have to kiss with our noses.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“And the Kittywinkses capered back to their places.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“All present at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party were
-pleased with the Kittywinkses, and no wonder, for they
-were a merry pair of twins, and not much like the sour
-faced ones, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, called in the
-story, <i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>.”</p>
-
-<hr class='c020' />
-
-<p class='c015'>“What story?” cried King Grimalkum in a stern voice.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The story of the renowned Tabby Furpurr,” answered
-the lovely Pussyanita. “Tabby Furpurr who
-found out a way of not liking birds, and had her picture
-taken and set in a frame.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I wish to hear the story,” cried the King. “Tell it.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“With pleasure, your majesty,” replied the lovely
-Pussyanita, “but to do so will take a longer time than I
-have to live.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Time shall be granted you,” answered the king.
-“Tell all you ever heard of Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
-and of the renowned Tabby Furpurr.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>The lovely Pussyanita bowed and began to tell all she
-had ever heard of Tweedledum and Tweedledee and of
-the renowned Tabby Furpurr.</p>
-<div id='p102'  class='figcenter id012'>
-<img src='images/i102.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Tweedledum and Tweedledee.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>“In the days when Mouseroun al Ratchid was King of
-all the Cats, it was his custom to disguise himself in
-mealbag powder and walk about the country to see what
-he could see, and see it without being known.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i103.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Good-Kind Boy.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One cloudy morning soon before a storm—the time
-when our race are liveliest—Mouseroun called Phi, his
-wisdom cat, and the two set forth upon their travels.
-After proceeding quite a distance they came in sight of a
-small boy with a porridge pot, sitting under a tree, eating
-porridge. A white cat close to his feet begged for the
-porridge, and a big dog stood by and licked the boy’s
-face and begged for porridge, and put his nose in the
-boy’s bread-bag.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Of what kind is the boy?’ asked Mouseroun of Phi.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Of the good kind,’ replied Phi.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘How knowest thou that, oh Phi?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Because the dog and cat come close and show no
-fear. They ask for food, sure of getting it.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Tell me, oh learned Phi, why a boy has long claws
-only on his fore legs.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Because his hind legs are for walking and standing,’
-replied Phi; ‘and for walking and standing, short claws
-are better than long claws.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Tell me further,’ inquired Mouseroun, ‘why a cat
-mews and a dog barks.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘For the same reason that a cow moos and a horse
-neighs, and a pig squeals, and a bird sings, and a frog
-croaks, and people speak,’ answered Phi. ‘Of course all
-these would mew if they could, but as they cannot mew
-they must do what they can do.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘And why, oh Phi, are some cats born white, and
-others black, and others gray, and others of divers
-colors?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Because,’ answered Phi, ‘it takes all kinds of cats to
-make a world.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Just at this moment a young black-and-white cat
-came up and began spitting at the dog, and clawing the
-cat, and biting the boy’s toes. When the dog growled,
-the cross cat ran out of sight.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Shall we go on and observe what that ill behaved
-creature will do next?’ asked Phi.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘By all means,’ answered Mouseroun, ‘but look where
-at yonder window a ribboned white cat sits stiff and
-straight, gazing at something afar. Let us hasten
-thither.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i106.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Cupep the Careful.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They hastened, and when they reached the window
-Mouseroun asked of
-the ribboned white
-cat: ‘Oh, ribboned
-white cat, sitting stiff
-and straight gazing at
-something afar, at what
-art thou gazing, and
-what is thy name?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I am gazing at
-flies,’ answered the ribboned
-white cat, ‘and I am called Cupep the Careful.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Mouseroun made a sign to Phi to ask of the ribboned
-white cat why he was called Cupep the Careful. Phi did
-so.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Because I can be trusted,’ replied the ribboned white
-cat to Phi, ‘and trusted in any place, among china, glass,
-pictures, bottles, papers, no matter how high the shelf,
-how narrow, or how full. I step in and out so carefully
-that no harm is ever done. Nobody minds even if I step
-on the baby’s face. You see I am allowed here with
-papers and a bottle and feather, easy to upset. All this
-is why I am called Cupep the Careful. I shall presently
-sit on the paper, and to sit on paper is pleasant.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As Cupep the Careful finished telling why he was
-called Cupep the Careful, Mouseroun drew Phi’s attention
-to two dark objects sitting in a barn at some distance.
-Bidding Cupep the Careful good morning they went
-towards the barn and found that the two dark objects
-were two black-and-white young cats. Said Phi,
-‘These must be the sour
-faced twins, Tweedledum
-and Tweedledee, called
-<i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>. I have often
-heard of them, but never
-any good.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i107.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Tweedledum and Tweedledee.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They went nearer. The
-sour faced twins sat side
-by side looking cross and
-unhappy. Mouseroun motioned to Phi to address them.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Are you not the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
-called <i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>?’ asked Phi, ‘and is it not one of
-you which shortly ago bit the toes of a boy, and spit at
-his dog, and clawed his cat?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘It was I,’ said Tweedledee, ‘who did that. I could
-not maul Cupep the Careful and I meant to maul
-somebody. I will maul him if I can. The stuck-up
-thing! Everybody praises him. He has a watch to
-wear. Nobody praises me and I have not even a
-ribbon. He has had his picture taken and hung up.
-Why don’t they take my picture?’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id010'>
-<img src='images/i108.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘They’d much better take mine,’
-snarled Tweedledum. ‘I’ve been
-crying to have my picture taken ever
-since I saw that one of Tabby Furpurr
-who found out a way of not
-liking birds, and on that account had
-her picture taken and set in a pussy
-willow frame. They won’t take my picture. But
-I’ll be even with them. I get hold of the clock strings,
-I tangle yarn, I won’t purr, I climb posts and tear
-down the flowers, I scratch the baby’s face, I pull away
-his playthings, I wait on the doorstep and bite his fingers,
-when he tries to reach me, and I kill birds. <i>I’m</i> not going
-to find a way of not liking birds if they won’t have
-my picture taken! I am better looking than Tabby Furpurr;
-I’m sweet and lovely.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i109.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Bite the Baby’s Fingers.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I am sweet and lovely myself,’ said <i>Dee</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘You’re not!’ said <i>Dum</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I am?’ said <i>Dee</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Say it again!’ said <i>Dum</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I do say it again!’ said <i>Dee</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Take that!’ said <i>Dum</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Take that!’ said Dee. And the two seemed as if they
-would tear each other’s eyes out, so that Mouseroun was
-wroth, and Phi had much ado to keep him from punishing
-them both on the spot.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘A future time is better,’ said Phi. ‘To act in anger
-is to make ourselves like these. Come, let us go and
-seek out the much renowned Tabby Furpurr who found
-out a way of not liking birds, and who on that account
-had her picture taken and set in a pussy-willow frame.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Mouseroun and Phi pursued their journey, rambling
-hither and thither, listening to the speech of bees, flies,
-bugs, worms, toads and frogs, and to the butterflies’ happy
-hum, which is too faint to be heard by the clumsy ears
-of people—people who think they hear everything and
-hear so little!</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Dost thou know,’ asked Mouseroun at last, ‘where
-dwelleth this renowned Tabby Furpurr?’</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id005'>
-<img src='images/i112.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Tabby Furpurr.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I have not that knowledge,’ replied Phi. ‘She must
-be now quite aged, and therefore well known hereabouts.
-Yonder is a young Persian, all so happy with her three
-kittens, as soft and white as herself. I will inquire of her
-concerning Tabby Furpurr.’ As they approached the
-young Persian, Phi inquired of her, ‘Dost thou know
-Mistress Tabby Furpurr, young Persian, and canst thou
-direct us to her
-abode?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I know Mistress
-Furpurr well
-enough,’ said the
-young Persian, ‘but
-I decline to direct
-you to her abode. It
-is too much trouble.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘We are anxious
-to find her,’ said
-Phi, ‘and we are
-weary with travel.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘No doubt,’ replied
-the Persian;
-‘but I prefer to stay
-and enjoy the company
-of my children.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i113.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Happy Young Persian.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘And wilt thou not direct us?’ asked Phi.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Answered the young Persian, ‘I have said what I have
-said.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Good day, then,’ said Phi, and he drew Mouseroun
-away, fearing he might do something rash.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Canst thou explain,’ asked Mouseroun of Phi as they
-journeyed on, ‘why the young Persian should refuse to
-please others when she is herself so happy?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘The most happy are often the most selfish,’ replied
-Phi. ‘Those who have known unhappiness are likely to
-feel pity.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A little farther on they looked in at a great stone
-doorway and there they spied a rat which had hidden in a
-dark corner to eat a head of wheat. ‘Rats are wise,’ said
-Phi, ‘perhaps yonder
-fellow may direct
-us to Mistress Tabby
-Furpurr.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But as they drew
-near to inquire of
-the rat, he dropped
-his wheat and fled.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Now, why was
-that?’ asked Mouseroun. ‘We meant
-him no harm.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i114.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Rat.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘A rat,’ said Phi,
-‘must judge by what has been done, not by what is
-meant. After all that has been done by cats to rats, it
-will take a long time to make rats believe that cats mean
-rats no harm.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I fear we shall not get any rat to direct us to the abode
-of Mistress Furpurr.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Phi was mistaken.
-Soon after, in
-passing a barn they
-heard much stir
-and scampering inside.
-‘Wherever
-there is a stir and
-a scampering,’ said
-Phi, ‘we may be
-sure there is something
-going on inside.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Mouseroun was eager to
-enter, but Phi held him back
-lest harm might befall him and
-himself stepped forward.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Rats,’ he whispered, as he
-stepped back.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i115.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Taken in a Trap.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“There were six rats inside
-the barn; a father, mother and
-four children had come to visit
-one of the family that had been taken in a trap. The
-mother looked in at the front of the cage, the father
-looked down from over the top. As Mouseroun and
-Phi drew near, the father, mother and four children fled
-to their holes.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The rat in the cage when questioned by Phi, said he
-had been told by his parents not to go in, but he thought
-he knew best, and he did not believe the trap would shut
-down so quick.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Did he know where Mistress Tabby Furpurr lived?
-and would he tell?</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Oh yes, he had reasons for knowing where Mistress
-Tabby Furpurr lived, and he would tell, and he did tell
-and with a kind good day, Mouseroun and Phi passed on
-their way.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I observed,’ said Mouseroun to Phi, as they passed
-on their way, ‘that the rat in the trap showed no fear of
-us. How was that?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘It must have been,’ said Phi, ‘that he knew we could
-not get at him.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘True,’ said Mouseroun. ‘Thou art truly a Cat of
-Wisdom.’”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i117.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>We Went Back.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>Not very long after this, Mouseroun and Phi reached
-the abode of the renowned Tabby Furpurr and heard the
-story of her life.</p>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c000' />
-</div>
-<div id='p119'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i119a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Story of Mistress Tabby Furpurr.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>“I was one of two kittens born in a respectable corner
-of a garret. My twin sister was sickly and died at an
-early age, and my mother, being lonely, stole a black kitten
-from another cat. The black kitten’s mother came to
-get her, but my mother was big and strong and with the
-help of my two older sisters she drove away the black
-kitten’s mother and
-kept the black kitten.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i119b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Black Kitten.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I did not like that
-black kitten. She was
-coarse-haired, she bit
-my tail, and when I
-had spools, or marbles,
-or knitting-work to play
-with, she got them
-away from me.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day when she
-bit my tail I flew at her throat and gave it a
-bad bite and made it bleed. I never saw her afterwards.
-I did not know what became of her but I
-never saw her afterwards, except in dreams. I had dreadful
-dreams. Once I dreamed I saw her sitting over the
-fireplace, holding her paw to her throat, and next time I
-dreamed she came close to me with
-her mouth and eyes wide open and
-glared at me.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id010'>
-<img src='images/i120a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>First Dream.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“My older sisters grew so large
-that the people thought they would
-send me and my mother away. They
-got us into a basket, and shut down
-the covers quick, and carried us very
-far. They thought my mother would
-never find the way back. My mother did. We got home
-at night, but my mother climbed up to the house top
-with me in her mouth and jumped through a window that
-she knew in the roof and in the
-morning they found us on the rug.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id010'>
-<img src='images/i120b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Second Dream.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Not long after this my mother
-was shot for her beautiful skin. I
-was so lonely that I mourned very
-much. The dog took care of me. I
-did not think Nep would be so kind,
-for sometimes he had barked at me, but when he
-knew I was sorry and lonesome he asked me to snuggle
-close to him and if any people touched me he drove
-them away.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i121.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Scamper Up and Down His Big Sides and Tickle His Paws, and His Nose.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When my older sisters saw me with Nep they
-wanted to come and he let them come. We warmed our
-feet in his hair. My sisters were too lazy to play, but one
-of them used to catch fleas in his
-hair. I did not like to catch fleas.
-I liked to scamper up and down his
-big sides and tickle his paws, and
-his nose. He used to give me some
-of his meat. He did not give my
-sisters any. I will now explain
-why I left Nep and that house.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id010'>
-<img src='images/i123.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>A pretty-faced white kitten used to come and play
-with me sometimes. One day when I was asleep on the
-door-mat, I was waked by a small noise and there was
-the white kitten’s face looking in at the door. She
-wanted me to go and see two rats. She said two rats
-went every day to a place to sit in the sun and we could
-stay behind a rock and peep at them.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I went with her to see the rats. They were too big
-for us to meddle with, but we could peep at them.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The white kitten liked to frolic and we raced
-over the fields and on the fences as much as we
-wanted to.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“All at once we heard a noise. People came. The
-white kitten got away but a man caught me, and
-carried me in some whistling cars to his home. He
-wanted to keep me. I was afraid to stay in that
-strange place and I squeezed
-out through a hole in the
-cellar.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i124.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Two Rats in the Sun.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Then something dreadful
-happened. I was chased by
-boys. They were dreadful
-boys. They hurt me. They
-made me tremble. They did
-things too cruel to mention.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They set a dog on me. I could hardly move, I trembled
-so. I crept under a rail and the dog stayed there, barking.
-I thought he would seize me, but before he did it a boy
-came and took me and treated me kindly, and carried me
-in his arms to his own home and took care of me.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Oh how I did love that boy! I wanted to stay with
-him all the time.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Every day when he went to school he let me go
-with him as far as the bridge.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Then I would look up in his face and mew, ‘Mayn’t
-I go further?’</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i125.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Boy That Treated Me Kindly.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i127a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>He Nibbles the Pink.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“He would lift up his finger and say, ‘No, Tabby Furpurr.
-Go back!’ And I always went back. But when it
-was time for him to come home I went to the bridge and
-waited till he came and then went
-to the house with him. The boy’s
-dog did not like to have the boy
-like me so much. He was not
-so good as Nep. He would not
-let me warm my feet in his hair.
-He looked at me when I stole
-cream or custard. If they caught
-me stealing cream or custard, I
-hung my tail and went over to
-the grandma house to stay.
-When grandma caught me stealing
-I hung
-my tail and went back to the boy’s
-house to stay. A girl lived in the
-boy’s house, and she
-tamed a mouse. It
-stayed in a box. One
-day the boy looked at
-me hard, and lifted
-up his finger and said,
-‘Tabby Furpurr, you
-have had enough to
-eat. This mouse is
-not for you. I am
-going to let this mouse out. Don’t you touch this
-mouse. Do you hear? <i>Don’t you touch it!</i>’</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i127b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I knew what he said, and I never did touch that mouse.
-The girl played with it and let it stay in her work-basket.
-It liked to nibble green things that were brought into the
-house.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day it got at a flower that the girl put in
-water and hung up, and it nibbled the flower. One
-day it was nibbling something green and it knocked over
-the thing the green was in
-and spilt the water on me
-and scared me, and made me
-jump, though I was quite
-an old cat then, and could
-not jump as spry as a kitten.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i128.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It was at this time that
-I had my fight with a woods
-cat. She came to our barn.
-I never saw her before. I
-went to the barn to get
-some catnip. There was
-catnip among the hay, and
-when I felt that I needed
-catnip I went and picked it
-out of the hay. That woods cat came to get some of the
-catnip, but she had no right there. It was in a place under
-the haymow and a great deal of the catnip hay was there.
-The woods cat was sitting on it, pawing it with her paw.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She flew at me, and
-we had a fight. She
-would have killed me if
-the girl had not come
-with a broom.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i129.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I was a bad looking
-cat. I went lame and
-had salve on me. The
-girl took care of me, and
-as soon as I could walk
-she let me go in the garden
-with her when she
-picked flowers. I liked
-to go into the garden.
-She used to sit under a
-tree and read a book, and I used to sit on the seat close
-to her, and if she stroked me I purred loud.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But she found out I liked birds. She saw me under a
-currant-bush eating a bird, and whipped me with a stick
-and said, ‘Shame, Tabby Furpurr! Shame on you to eat
-a little bird!’ And I went to the grandma house to
-stay.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A bird came to live in our house. It lived in a cage
-high on the wall. The boy showed me the bird and
-looked at me hard, and lifted up his finger and said, ‘Tabby
-Furpurr, don’t you touch that bird. That bird is not for
-you. <i>Don’t you touch that bird!</i>‘</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I did not mean to do anything to that bird. But it
-kept moving and hopping, and shaking its wings, and
-shaking its tail, and it made me look at it; and one day
-when it shook itself very much I looked at it a long time
-and at last I jumped at it. Before I knew what I was
-going to do I jumped at it, and the cage fell down. I
-could not get the bird. He kept himself in a corner.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The boy’s dog barked and ran to tell the people something
-was the matter, and they all came and spoke loud
-and held up their fingers and cried ‘Shame! Shame!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I went over to the grandma house and hid under a bed
-and stayed till I was almost starved. Then I crawled out
-and put my paw on grandma’s foot, and looked up in her
-face and she gave me some milk, and let me warm me at
-her fire.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i131.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Rat That Fought the Duck.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Something happened to her duck. It let its little ducks
-go with it under the bridge to the pond, and it got
-itself killed. There was a rat there, and it was going to
-get one of her little ducks, and she began to fight the rat,
-and the mother rat came out and helped fight the duck,
-and the boy drove them away, but afterwards the duck
-died and left the little ducks.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But grandma had a barn cat. She was not a Tabby.
-She was only a black-and-white cat, but she was a very
-good cat. She never would touch a bird or a chicken,
-and she never would suck an egg. She did not like me.
-She would not let me come in her barn. I did not let her
-come in my barn. She was a good cat for not liking
-birds.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The boy carried the little ducks to the barn and tried
-to make a hen that was there take care of them. She
-would not do that. She went and left them. She would
-not scratch up worms for them. The other ducks would
-not. They had to take care of their own children, and
-these little ducks stayed all alone by themselves, and cried
-for their mother.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Now that barn cat, though she was only a black and
-white cat and not a Tabby, sat down there with the little
-ducks and took care of them. Every day she went there
-and stayed with the ducks, and when they went into a
-puddle she mewed for them to come back.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When she sat taking care of the little ducks, people
-used to come and look at her. The first time she took
-care of them grandma’s dog barked at her. When
-grandma told him it was all right, and let him see her
-stroke the barn cat, he went away, but sometimes he
-came to look at that cat and the ducks to see if all was
-right. Sometimes the cat would spit at him. She would
-spit at anybody that touched one of her little ducks.
-When the little ducks went in wet places she took them
-by their necks and brought them out, and she carried
-them by their necks so much that they had crooked
-necks. One day a strange cat, a great white Tommy,
-came and looked in at the barn door when she was staying
-with the little ducks and she flew at him quick, and
-almost clawed his eyes out and he was glad to run.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i134.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day I wanted very
-much to taste of a little duck
-and I tried to get one, and I
-hurt its leg, and she clawed
-me and made me drop it, and
-grandma shamed me and I
-went back to the boy’s house
-and hid under a bed, and
-when I was almost starved
-I crawled out and the boy
-whipped me hard and carried
-me back to the grandma
-house, and into her barn, and
-showed me that barn cat with the little ducks, and lifted
-up his finger, and looked at me hard, and whipped me
-again and said: ‘Tabby Furpurr, don’t you see that
-barn cat staying with ducks and not eating any? And
-<i>you</i> even fly at birds! Don’t you ever touch any kind of
-bird again. Do you hear? Find out a way of not liking
-birds. <i>Find out a way of not liking birds! Remember!</i>‘</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i135.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Duck’s Defender.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I knew what he said, though not in the way people
-know. I knew by the cat-way. I remembered by the
-cat-way of remembering. I
-kept very still, I did not steal,
-and when they thought I was
-asleep I was finding out a
-way of not liking birds, and
-after I found it out I never
-touched a bird again, nor a
-duck, nor a chicken. I stayed
-with the girl under the tree
-and never touched a bird. I
-watched the bird in the cage
-when he hopped and shook his tail and did not jump at
-him, and I would not let any other cat touch a bird
-nor a duck nor a chicken.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id011'>
-<img src='images/i137.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>They Thought I Was Asleep.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day when some killed chickens were hanging up,
-a great Maltese cat came and looked at them and was
-going to jump for them but I spit at her and drove her
-away. The people were pleased with me all the time and
-the girl let me stay in the room when the bird’s cage-door
-was open and when he flew out; and
-more birds came there to live and
-the birds had little birds, and they grew
-big birds, and I was a friend to them,
-and the girl got a very big cage for all
-the birds and sometimes she let me
-stay in there with them and I did not
-touch one. They would stand on my
-head and walk on my fur, and I let
-them. The boy was pleased with me
-and the girl was pleased with me.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id014'>
-<img src='images/i138.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Going to Jump for Them.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I am an old cat now; a very old
-cat. I do not care for balls, or
-spools, or marbles, or knitting-work,
-or tassels, or strings. I
-do not wish to jump high. I
-like to sit by the fire and feel the <i>warm</i> all around me.
-You have heard my story!”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Mouseroun made a sign to Phi by which Phi understood
-that Mouseroun wished him to ask Mistress
-Tabby Furpurr the way she found out of not liking
-birds.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Excuse me to-day,’ replied Mistress Tabby Furpurr
-to Phi’s question. ‘I am weary and must take my
-repose. Some other time I will tell.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Soon after this Mouseroun and Phi went to a
-great Battle of the Cats and were long absent.
-Upon their return they set forth as before to travel
-about the country, and again sought out the
-abode of Mistress Tabby Furpurr.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As they journeyed on they were met by two
-lively young black-and-white cats, the same two
-they met before,
-Tweedledum
-and
-Tweedledee,
-called <i>Dum</i>
-and <i>Dee</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They were
-full of frolic
-and good-nature,
-tumbling
-over
-each other,
-and snatching
-at each
-other’s tails.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i139.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Whither so fast?’ asked Phi of them as they met.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘To catch some bugs for a cat with a large family of
-kittens,’ they said.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“You are not as sour as you were,” said Phi.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Oh, no,’ said <i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>. ‘It
-is folly to be sour when sweet is
-better. We found that out.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘You might have your pictures
-taken now,’ said Phi.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘We’re so happy we don’t care to,’
-said <i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>. ‘Good day to
-you.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id015'>
-<img src='images/i140.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Beware of guns,’ said a faint
-voice near by.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It was the faint voice of a feeble
-cat who had crept under a bush to
-die.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘We’re not afraid,’ said <i>Dum</i> and
-<i>Dee</i>. ‘We have our nine lives, you
-know.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Go not quickly through them as
-I have done,’ said the feeble cat.
-‘Beware of dogs, beware of stones,
-beware of guns, beware of shutting up, beware of boys,
-beware of drowning, beware of hot water, beware of
-stepping on, beware of wet blacking-brushes.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I have lived eight lives, and am now dying of a spot
-of blacking.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Tell us about the eight lives,’ said <i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>; and
-at a sign from Mouseroun, Phi made the same request.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I will try,’ replied the feeble cat, ‘if you will bear with
-my weakness.’”</p>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c009' />
-</div>
-<div id='p141'  class='figcenter id012'>
-<img src='images/i141.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Story of the Feeble Cat and Her Nine Lives.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>“My name is Pixie. I have lived my eight lives, speaking
-after the manner of cats, and am now in my ninth,
-which will soon end.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i142a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>To Catch Butterflies.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When I was small and very young I was dropped in
-water. The water washed me back to the sand. I could
-not stir. I was kicked. People said ‘dead kitten.’ A
-great cat took me to a good place and licked me, and I
-opened my eyes. The great cat came many times. I
-should not have lived if she had not caught butterflies and
-grasshoppers for me. She got very good butterflies.
-Sometimes her spotted kitten came to see me, and sometimes
-she went to the fields with her mother to get butterflies
-and grasshoppers for me, and one day she brought
-me a very big grasshopper.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i142b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>She Brought Me a Very Big Grasshopper.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When I could
-stand on all my feet
-the great cat carried
-me in her mouth to
-a house and a girl
-let me come in, and
-I was that girl’s kitten. She held me a great deal. Once
-when I was crawling on the floor, the boy walked across
-and he stepped on
-me so hard that I
-was all out flat, and
-they took me up on
-a shovel and carried
-me out to
-another room to
-stay till I could
-be buried. Next
-morning the girl
-came out there crying
-because her
-kitten was dead. The boy came with a shovel to bury
-me; but I was crawling on the hearth. The boy said,
-‘Hurrah for Pixie!’ and the girl hugged me and kissed
-me.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i143.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Was Scared.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day the boy took something off the stove, and tied
-the dog to it and told the girl to carry me to ride; and
-she put me in and tried to carry me to ride, but it was
-too warm, and I was scared of riding in it, and jumped
-out and ran with all my might through the house and up-stairs,
-and hid in a closet. The closet-door got shut and I
-stayed there. I had nothing to eat. I mewed all the
-time, but the people were far away. When I could not
-mew any longer I dropped down. There was nothing left
-of me but my skin and my bones. When the people
-found me they took me out-doors to bury me. They put
-me in the sunshine and in a little while I opened my eyes.
-I was close to the hens’ clams, and I ate some and crawled
-away from that place, and the boy carried me into the
-house, and I got well.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Mornings I scratched on the girl’s door and when I
-was let in I jumped upon her bed and played with her
-nose and with her toes, and sat on her and purred loud.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A white cat lived in that house. She was not my
-girl’s cat. She was the small girl’s cat. She could not
-purr. She had no voice to purr. The small girl put
-the white cat’s ear close to my mouth and said, ‘Purr
-like Pixie!’ and the boy rubbed her paws together, to
-make her purr, and squeezed her tail softly and stroked
-her, but she did not purr. She had no voice to purr.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i146.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The white cat and I played together with the balls and
-the spools and the hammock strings and the knitting-work,
-and sometimes Pomp, the dog, played with us. The
-dog liked to play. When the small girl stayed in the hammock
-to sew her work and see picture books, the white cat
-used to stay in the hammock or close by, and take a nap;
-but the boy used to come and make her jump, and sometimes
-Pomp came there and jumped in the hammock.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When the white cat grew older she had some kittens.
-I had not had any kittens. She was taken much notice
-of. The white cat lost all her kittens but one and as
-soon as that one could run she and her mother were sent
-away. Then the small girl held me and I was glad, for
-she spoke to me softly and touched me softly. She liked
-me because I could purr.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i147.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One morning the white cat came back with her kitten.
-I saw her standing at the
-door to be let in, and I
-knew she ought not to
-come back, and I tried
-to drive her away, and
-we had a fight, and a
-cruel woman threw hot
-water at us from the
-kitchen, and it scalded
-my head and I went
-under some bushes to
-die. I could not see;
-I went by my smellers. When people found me
-they called me but I would not come out. They
-brought me some milk and a piece of meat, and
-I ate a little, and when I could see with both eyes I
-came out, but my neck has always been stiff on one side.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The next time I almost got killed it was by a heavy
-stone. The stone fell on me. I liked to go in the garden
-and climb upon a high wall and see what was on the
-other side. A Molly girl lived on the other side, and a
-horse, and a dog, and two great cats, and hens, and there
-was a great deal there that was good to eat. The Molly
-girl wanted me to play in the sand with her and sometimes
-she took me down from the wall. She made holes
-in the sand and covered me up and
-when I was covered up I jumped out
-and ran and then came back. Sometimes
-she let me ride with her Jemima
-in her Jemima’s doll carriage.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i148.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Climb Up on a High Wall.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A woman came out every day to
-give corn to the hens, and things to
-the two great cats, and talk to the
-horses. I did not want the hen’s corn.
-I liked the things that were put into
-the two great cats’ plate, but the dog
-always wanted what was left. The two great cats had a
-plate of their own.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Once when the two great cats were not there and that
-dog was not, the woman put something in the plate, and
-went away and I thought I would jump quick and get it,
-and I raced along the wall and got tangled in a vine, and
-jumped, and fell and pulled a
-great stone down on myself; on
-the back part of myself; and I
-could not stir, and when the boy
-found me and took the stone off,
-I was a good deal jammed, and
-I could not
-walk with
-the legs
-which
-belong to that part.
-People said I must
-be killed, but they
-waited, and I did
-not have to be
-killed. I walked
-with all my legs.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i149.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When I grew
-bigger I used to go
-into the Molly girl’s
-house and the woman
-used to drive me away. She did not
-like me, for she saw me get into the hen-house
-at a place where it was broken, and saw egg-shells
-I left when I sucked the eggs. I could not eat egg-shells.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day I did something bad, though I did not know
-it was bad. I was in the Molly girl’s house. Her
-Jemima’s doll’s carriage was on a high place, but the
-strings hung over. The wind blew hard that day and I
-was very frisky and I jumped and pulled the doll carriage
-down by the strings and broke it, and dragged it about
-and played with it very long. When the Molly girl came
-there she cried. The people came and drove me out, and
-said very loud, ‘<i>Scat! scat!</i>’ A cruel boy that heard
-them <i>scatting</i> me set his dog on me, and that dog chased
-me, but he would not have touched me if the cruel boy
-had not said, ‘Shake her!’ When he heard that he took
-me by the throat. Oh <i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>, may you never have
-anything so dreadful happen to you!</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i151.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>I Did Something Bad.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The dog dropped me behind a tree and people found me
-and said I was dead. The girl I belonged to said I was
-alive, and they waited, and when they saw the end of my
-tail stir they put something on the sores the dog made,
-and the grandma woman took care of me, and I got well.
-But I would rather have died than to have that cruel boy
-do so again. Only a cat can know what a cat can suffer
-from cruel boys. Dogs would not hurt us if people and
-cruel boys did not tell them to.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day I had some kittens of my own. We were in a
-good closet close by my own girl’s bed. Oh I was proud
-of my pretty little dears! I wanted people to come and
-see them. But when people came they said, ‘Why! why!
-why! The cat has kittens in the closet! Take the cat
-and kittens away from that closet!’</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i153.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Carried Them to the Barn.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They carried us up to the garret and put us in a box. I would
-not stay there. I
-took my kittens
-one at a time and
-carried them in my
-mouth back to the
-closet. We were
-put up in the box
-again and the garret
-door was kept
-shut. I got out of
-the window and
-carried my kittens
-down by tree
-branches, and got
-in by another window,
-and soon they
-found us in the
-closet. Then the boy put some of my kittens in his hat
-and another boy took some and they carried them to the
-barn, and I went there too; but I would not stay there. I
-knew what the best place was, the best place was the closet.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When it was dark I carried my kittens back to the
-closet. Then they carried us down cellar, and kept the
-door shut. I found a hole and made it bigger, and
-squeezed through that hole with my kittens and went back
-to the closet. They put us down cellar again and stopped
-up the hole, and kept the door shut.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day soon as the door was opened I slipped
-quick between somebody’s feet, and went up-stairs to the
-grandma woman’s room, and sat by the fire. The grandma
-woman looked at me hard and said, ‘Poor Pixie! It is too
-cold for your kittens down cellar; go bring them here.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I knew what she said and answered her in my mew
-language, and went and got my kittens and she made a
-bed for us in a basket that had room in it.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i155.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Where It Was Not Right for Kittens to Go.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When my kittens were big enough to crawl I went
-away and left them sometimes, and if they cried for my
-going I punished them. When they were good I let them
-play with my tail; but I always kept one paw ready to
-punish them if they bit me, or bit each other. I took great
-comfort with my dear kittens. They understood everything
-I said to them. One was taken from me, but I tried to be
-contented with what were left.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They soon grew big enough to follow me all over the
-house, and I took them to many places. One room was
-always shut. I did not like that. No cat likes to have a
-door kept shut.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day a woman went in that room and worked and
-moved the things; and she went away and left the door
-not shut tight, and I pushed in with my kittens, and they
-had a happy time. They raced and scampered as if they
-were crazy kittens, for there was a high wind blowing that
-day. I tried to keep them out of the bed-curtains, but
-they would go there. They all got on the bed and raced
-over the pillows where it was not right for kittens or even
-cats to go, and they bit the fringes, and jumped up and
-clawed the tassels and some of the tassels were so good
-that I clawed them myself. Almost any cat will claw a
-good tassel hanging down in a windy day. The kittens
-rolled over each other too near the edge of the bed and
-rolled off, and hopped up and went scampering round the
-room pulling all the things they wanted to. They went
-up on high places and tipped things over, and pulled
-things down, and got into the drawers, and Pomp heard
-them, and he came in there and jumped about and pulled
-things out of the drawers, and gnawed things, and played
-with my kittens. They would not mind me, and all I
-could do was to sit in a chair and watch them.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I thought I heard a mouse in a closet, and went in
-there to see; and while I was in there somebody drove
-out my kittens and Pomp. I stayed to see about the
-mouse, and I ate something bad in that closet. It had
-been put there for the mice.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“What I ate in that closet made me sick and I was very
-sick. They gave me medicine. They held my mouth
-open and put the medicine down my throat with a spoon.
-I did not like it. I would not take any more. I went
-away in dark places. Sometimes I crawled into the house,
-and then they tried to make me eat. They could not
-make me eat. I grew weaker and weaker, and one day
-they said I was dead. The boy said, ‘That cat is not dead.
-That is one of the cats that will live all her nine lives.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i158.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Only Two.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I was not dead, or if I was dead I came to life
-again.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When I came to life
-again two of my kittens
-were playing by my side.
-Only two. The others
-were gone. Very soon
-even these two were
-taken from me. Not one of them ever came
-back. Kittens that have been taken away do not come
-back.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Now that I had no kittens to need me at home, I was
-free to go out and meet my friends on fences and the
-shed-roofs. I went often, and enjoyed my fights with
-them very much.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i159.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>There I Saw a Rat Hanging by His Tail.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day when it was cold weather I went to a swamp
-to watch a rat’s nest. Another cat had been watching for
-that rat, but I meant to get it myself. I ran all the way,
-and when I got there I saw the rat on the tree holding
-on by his tail and eating what he could find, and I went
-up, but the rat slipped down the other side and went to
-his nest.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I had better have kept away from that tree. By going
-up that tree I got shot. Two boys saw me, and one shot
-me. I dropped to the ground. The boys came and
-kicked me. I was almost dead. The shots stayed in me
-and they are in me now. I could crawl a little, but I was
-very weak.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i161.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>He Dropped Me on a Doorstep.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“While I stayed there, crawling a little when I could,
-a cat came out from the swamp and ran at me. She was
-one of my own kittens grown up into a cat. She had
-been dropped in the woods, and she was a wild cat. She
-flew at me and she would have damaged me very much if
-a dog had not barked and scared her away. The dog
-did not touch me. He took me out of a muddy ditch. I
-was crawling, and did not know I was close to the muddy
-ditch, and fell into it and went deep in the mud and
-water. The dog jumped in and pulled me out. He
-carried me to a house and dropped me on the doorstep.
-The boy came from my house to see me. The people
-said I was dead. The boy said, ‘No, she will come to
-life. She is a cat that will live all her nine lives.’ And
-I did come to life. The boy carried me home, and the
-grandma woman washed me and fed me with milk, and
-put me in a good bed, and I was soon well enough to
-take a little squash with my milk.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The grandma woman used to hold me, and speak
-softly to me, and if I jumped on her shoulder she never
-pushed me off and said ‘scat!’ If I jumped up there
-when she was eating breakfast she let me stay, and let me
-taste of her breakfast.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I wanted to thank the grandma woman, and so one
-day I brought her a little fish I caught in the pond. I
-stood on a stone in the pond and looked down close to the
-water, and when a fish saw my eyes shine sometimes it
-would jump up, and if I put my paw out quick I could
-catch the fish. The grandma woman was pleased when
-I brought the fish, and she wanted to sing to me. I did
-not like to hear anybody sing. When anybody began to
-sing I got up and walked all around the room, and
-scratched at the doors, and I could not keep still. Sometimes
-the grandma woman sang when I was asleep; but
-I opened my eyes and began to walk. Sometimes I
-jumped up and put my paw on her mouth.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day the white cat and myself got carried off in a
-bag. It was going to rain, and we were washing our
-faces a great deal. A bad boy called us out, and we
-stopped washing our faces and went out, and he put us
-in a bag. There were very many cats in the bag. The
-boy carried us to a place far away and put more cats in
-the bag, then he carried us to another place and put more
-cats in, and then he carried us all very far to a strange
-place and let us all out of the bag in a room and shut the
-doors and windows tight.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One of the windows was broken a little and a great
-cat pushed the glass out, and we all went through, and
-set off for our own homes in the rain, but I went in a
-barn and hid till the rain stopped. It took me very long
-to go home.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As I passed by a house on my way home, a man in
-that house was making a noise on a fiddle, and I ran and
-jumped up on his shoulder, because he was making the
-noise, and he pushed me off, and I ran, and he threw a
-wet blacking brush at me, and made a spot on my fur.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i165.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>She Never Pushed Me Off and Said, Scat!</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I came home and tried to lick off the spot, but I could
-not reach it. It is far off and my neck is stiff. Not any
-cat would lick it off for me. I smelt it all the time and
-felt it, and it worried me. I could not eat. I grew weak
-and sick. Sometimes I crawled to the basin and lapped
-one or two laps of milk, but no more. I did not catch.
-Mice came near, and I did not even stir the end of my
-tail. I kept in dark places. I have but little strength
-left, and with that I am now crawling to the woods to die.
-Farewell. Beware of guns, beware of dogs, beware of
-stones, beware of stepping on, beware of shutting up,
-beware of hot water, beware of drowning, beware of cruel
-boys, beware of wet blacking brushes. Farewell. You
-will never see me more.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i167.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>And Lapped One or Two Laps of Milk.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Pixie then crawled to the woods where she was afterwards
-found dead; so dead that she never came back to
-life.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“<i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i>, and Mouseroun and Phi, his Wisdom
-Cat, watched Pixie until she had crawled out of sight.
-<i>Dum</i> and <i>Dee</i> then frisked away to catch bugs for the
-puss with the large family of kittens, and Mouseroun and
-Phi journeyed on to seek the renowned Mistress Tabby
-Furpurr, who found out a way of not liking birds, and on
-that account had her picture taken and set in a pussy-willow
-frame, and who had promised to tell the way to
-Mouseroun and Phi.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They did not find her. The renowned Mistress
-Tabby Furpurr had long lain buried beneath the lilac
-bush, having died of old age, and alas! without revealing
-the way she found out of not liking birds!”</p>
-
-<hr class='c020' />
-
-<p class='c015'>“Which was a pity,” said the lovely Pussyanita to King
-Grimalkum as she finished the story, “since now our race
-must be blamed for liking birds when they cannot help
-liking them. Blamed, dropped, shot, drowned, stoned—not
-many of us would be living had we not our nine lives,
-though not many cats have done to them what was spoken
-of in the story the cat that hadn’t common sense told
-at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“What story was that?” asked King Grimalkum
-quickly.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Nothing your majesty will care to hear,” answered
-Pussyanita. “It is not a common sense story.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I say I do want to hear it,” cried King Grimalkum.
-“I don’t want any more common sense stories. I’m tired
-of common sense. I insist upon knowing what was
-spoken of in the story the cat that hadn’t common sense
-told at Lady Yellow-paw’s famous party.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Your majesty must understand,” said Pussyanita, “that
-probably it never really—”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I don’t care a mouse-ear for your <i>never reallys</i>,” interrupted
-King Grimalkum. “I want the story.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Your majesty’s wish shall be obeyed,” replied Pussyanita,
-“but your majesty will perceive at the beginning
-that it is not a common sense story.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Make no more words about it!” furiously cried the
-king, “if you do I’ll—”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>The lovely Pussyanita made no more words about it,
-but hastened to begin The Story of the Two Charcoals
-and the Four Spekkums.</p>
-<div id='p169'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i169.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Story of the Two Charcoals and the Four Spekkums.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i170.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>“There was once a cat who had six kittens of exactly the
-same size, two very dark ones and four very light ones,
-and as she could not think of names for so
-many and as it was an important matter,
-she spoke to their uncle Thomas about
-it. Their uncle Thomas said it was
-an important matter, and sent her
-to ask the wise and aged Goody Gumbo.
-Goody Gumbo had seen much and
-heard much, for she had been
-alive ever since the days
-when willow trees bore real
-pussys and some said she
-was picked off a willow tree
-herself.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Goody Gumbo named the
-two dark kittens Charcoal,
-and the four light ones Spekkum,
-and they were afterwards
-spoken of as the Charcoals
-and Spekkums.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When the Charcoals
-and the Spekkums had
-grown old enough to run
-out-doors, it was seen that
-one of the Spekkums
-was much too frisky, and
-that they all were likely to be.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id011'>
-<img src='images/i171a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Their mother spoke to their
-uncle Thomas about it and he
-said, ‘send three of them to
-school to learn to behave and
-they can teach the other
-three.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Send three of the Spekkums
-and let Frisky Spekkum
-be one of the three.
-I will see the schoolma’am.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The schoolma’am said
-that
-she
-would teach three of the Spekkums
-to behave if they would
-go to the school well dusted in
-meal bag powder, as she herself
-always did. Their mother
-said she would attend to that
-and three of the Spekkums
-were sent to school and Frisky
-Spekkum was one of the three.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i171b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The schoolma’am took them
-by themselves and talked to
-them seriously. She then placed them in a row and said:
-‘Rule first! Sit straight; tails down; noses up; ears
-flat; paws hanging!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They did so, but Frisky Spekkum did not sit as
-straight as the others.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Rule second! All stand. Ears up; tails up!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They did so, but Frisky Spekkum sat down before
-she was told to. ‘If you can’t mind,’ said the schoolma’am,
-‘I’ll have no more to do with you,’ and turned
-away with a scowl.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘O, do have something to do with me!’ cried Frisky
-Spekkum, and stood quickly on her feet.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I will if you will be good,’ said the schoolma’am, and
-turned back with a smile, and went on with the rules.
-‘Rule third! Sit straight; ears up; noses down; paws up!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They did so, though Frisky Spekkum would not hold
-her paws as high as the others; and she frisked and
-caused the others to frisk.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘When you have learned to make your bows and say
-good afternoon properly you may go home,’ the schoolma’am
-said. They all made their bows and said good
-afternoon properly, for all were anxious to go home, and
-Frisky Spekkum did better than the others, for she was
-more anxious to go home.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Now go,’ said the schoolma’am, ‘you are a troublesome
-set and I am glad to be done with you. Scamper
-home.’ And they scampered home.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i173.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“On their way home they saw a young rat walking out
-with his parents, and
-went behind a wall
-and peeped through.
-They wanted the
-young rat but did
-not like to touch
-him when his parents
-were with him.
-The young rat was
-telling his parents of a beautiful shiny box with
-beautiful cheese in it. His father said ‘My child, go not
-near that beautiful shiny box nor touch that beautiful
-cheese.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat did go to that beautiful shiny box and
-touch that beautiful cheese and came near losing his life,
-as my story will soon tell.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The three Spekkums went home to dinner, a very
-good dinner of milk and herring. Their uncle Thomas
-was there and while they were at dinner a kind girl presented
-every one of them with a neck ribbon. The Charcoals
-and the Spekkums went out to play and Frisky
-Spekkum was naughty and gnawed the others’ neck-ribbons
-and made them gnaw hers. Their mother spoke to
-their uncle Thomas about it and he told Frisky that if
-she did not behave he should have to send word to the
-rats to carry her away, as they carried away Mab Fizz-Fuzz.
-She said she was not afraid.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The two Charcoals went to their uncle Thomas’ house
-to supper and the four Spekkums stayed with their
-mother. When it was supper time their mother said to
-them softly, ‘Follow me and I will give you something
-good.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They followed her and she led them to the beautiful
-shiny box.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘You see what is inside,’ said she, ‘jump quick, when
-I lift up the door.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i175.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Not Quick Enough.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat was inside. He had eaten the beautiful
-cheese and wished to stay no longer in the beautiful
-shiny box. He sprang out when the door was lifted. The
-four Spekkums sprang after him. They were not quick
-enough. He slipped through a rat-hole, though Frisky
-Spekkum was near enough to claw his tail as it went
-through. He was so frightened he knew not what he
-was doing and went straight into a bottle, and there was
-something bad left in the bottle, and he would have died
-of that if a friendly young frog had not found him. The
-young frog’s family and the young rat’s family had been
-friends ever since one of the young frog’s family saved
-the life of one of the young rat’s family, and that was a
-long, long time before. It was before the Janjibo.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i177.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But all this belongs
-to another story
-and cannot be
-told now, for there
-is yet more to tell
-of the Charcoals and
-the Spekkums.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“One day their
-uncle Thomas put on his best clothes and his tall hat
-and got a sleigh box and two pair of rabbits and invited
-the Charcoals’ and Spekkums’ mother to go sleighing
-with him. Their mother smiled and quickly put
-on her best clothes and her bonnet with flowers and
-got her best muff.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The Charcoals and Spekkums all wanted to go, but
-their uncle Thomas said so many would be too many for
-the rabbits and that he would take three and take the
-other three next time.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They took three of the Spekkums and told Frisky
-Spekkum to stay and wait with the two Charcoals and go
-next time. Their uncle Thomas then helped their mother
-in, and took his seat, and the three Spekkums hopped in
-behind and sat looking over the side as happy as they
-could be. Their mother told them to hold on tight for
-their uncle Thomas would soon whip up, and they might
-fall out. Their uncle Thomas whipped up and the rabbits
-set off upon a gallop.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Just as they were setting off, Frisky Spekkum ran
-away from the two Charcoals and climbed up behind the
-sleigh-box, and held on and tried to get in, but the rabbits
-went so fast that she fell off and rolled over and over.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She went back to play with the Charcoals, but she did
-not behave well. She was too frisky with them. She bit
-ears, and she almost bit off the two Charcoals’ neck-ribbons
-and made them bite off her neck ribbon and was
-so frisky that one of the Charcoals would not play, and
-went away. Frisky then took the other Charcoal with
-her into pantries and a hen house and other places where
-cats ought never to go, and made her eat with her thick
-cream, and custard pie, and other things which cats ought
-never to eat. They also clawed a best carpet.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Their uncle Thomas came home and found them in a
-cheese and butter closet, and they ran, and he ran and
-caught them by their tails and punished them severely.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i179.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Frisky Spekkum Tries to Steal a Ride.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“This did not cure Frisky Spekkum. She was still
-too Frisky. She frisked with tassels, she frisked with
-whip-lashes, she frisked with reins, she frisked with flies
-she frisked with rabbits, she frisked with dogs’ tails, she
-frisked with pigs’ tails. Her mother told her of Mab
-Fizz-Fuzz who was carried off by her tail by the rats, and
-told her that if she did not stop being too frisky then rats
-would have to be sent for. But Frisky would not believe
-there ever was any Mab Fizz-Fuzz, and would not stop
-being too frisky. Her mother spoke to her uncle
-Thomas about it, and her uncle Thomas said her mother
-had better send her to Goody Gumbo to be talked to.
-He said that as Goody Gumbo had been alive ever since
-real pussys grew on pussy-willow trees, she would know
-how to talk to her.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i181.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>In a Cheese and Butter Closet.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Frisky Spekkum was sent to Goody Gumbo to be
-talked to, but when the talking began she made believe
-be deaf and not hear a word. Goody Gumbo kept ear-trumpets
-for deaf ones and she gave Frisky a heavy
-ear-trumpet and made her hold it till the talking was
-done.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i182.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Goody Gumbo Talking to Frisky.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“After she was talked to by Goody Gumbo, Frisky
-Spekkum was not too frisky for a very long time. She
-played with the two Charcoals and the other Spekkums,
-and behaved as well as any of them. They were all
-quiet and happy, and
-Frisky was as quiet
-and happy as the others.
-When they were
-playing together Frisky
-made no mischief
-with the tails of the
-others. She behaved
-as well as the others.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“This pleased their
-mother very much and
-she spoke to their
-uncle Thomas about
-it. Their uncle
-Thomas said he did
-not believe that Frisky
-Spekkum behaved
-as well as the two
-Charcoals and the other
-Spekkums. Their
-mother told him to
-come and see.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i183.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Charcoals and the Speckkums on Their Good Behavior.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Their mother
-made them sit close
-together, in a row,
-with their ears all turned the same way and their eyes
-all turned the same way, and their tails all turned the
-same way around their fore paws, and Frisky Spekkum
-sat so still that when their uncle Thomas came to
-see he could not tell which one was Frisky.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id008'>
-<img src='images/i184.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Not long after this the same kind girl gave them
-all new neck-ribbons and their mother said that as they
-had new neck-ribbons and Frisky had stopped being
-too frisky, she would have a party. Then she thought
-it would be a good plan to have them go to singing-school
-and learn something to sing at the party. She
-spoke to their uncle Thomas
-about it and their uncle
-Thomas said he would try
-their voices and find out
-which had voices to sing.
-He tried their voices and
-found out that only one
-of the Charcoals and two
-of the Spekkums had voices
-to sing. Frisky Spekkum
-was not one of the two
-Spekkums that had voices to sing, and she did not go
-to the singing-school.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The three that had voices to sing went to singing-school,
-and were put in a row by themselves where they
-sat very still with their tails around their fore paws as
-their mother and their uncle Thomas told them to, and
-had their voices tried and were taught to sing the song
-of The Two Tailed Mouse, every word of which was as
-true as cream.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The party was to be in a barn-room on account of a
-large basket of fish and lobsters which had been placed
-there, and it was to be an evening party.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Before it was time for the party to begin, the three
-who were to sing the song of The Two Tailed Mouse,
-were told by their mother to go to the barn-room and
-sit in a proper manner and sing the song until they could
-sing it well enough to sing it at the party and please
-all who might hear it. They obeyed her, and as Frisky
-Spekkum had not been too frisky for a very long time,
-she was allowed to go and hear them sing, if she would
-sit still. She sat still a great while, but hearing the singing
-and looking much at the lobster-feelers made her
-want to be too frisky and she frisked with the lobster-feelers,
-and went into the basket and frisked with lobster
-claws, and gnawed them, and clawed them, and gnawed
-and clawed some little fishes, and ate all she could of the
-fishes and the lobsters, and made herself sick, and could
-not stay up at the party. She had to go to bed in the
-haymow,
-and
-when
-she
-was
-asleep she
-dreamed
-that her
-name was
-Mab Fizz-Fuzz,
-and that
-rats dragged her
-off by the tail through a
-place that was too small.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i186.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i187.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Frisky Spekkum’s Dream.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She woke up sorrowful.
-She was sorrowful long.
-She would not eat, she
-would not run, she would
-not catch, she would not
-play with the two Charcoals
-and the other Spekkums.
-Their mother spoke
-to their uncle Thomas
-about it, and their uncle
-Thomas said he thought that dream would do Frisky
-Spekkum good.”</p>
-
-<hr class='c020' />
-
-<p class='c015'>“And that is the end of the story, your majesty,” said
-the lovely Pussyanita.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“End?” exclaimed the King. “It has no end. It
-leaves off short. Why does it leave off short? Why does
-it not come to a proper end, namely, by the way a cat’s
-tail does?”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Because, your majesty, it is not a common sense
-story,” replied the lovely Pussyanita. “I told your majesty
-at the beginning your majesty would not like a story
-that’s not a common sense story.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I say I do like stories that are not common sense
-stories!” cried King Grimalkum. “Common sense makes
-my head ache. Tell me another. Tell the one you
-skipped; that about the Janjan’s.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Your majesty means The Janjibo,” said Pussyanita.
-“That is the silliest story that ever was.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I have always wanted to hear the silliest story that
-ever was,” said the King. “Tell it. And let it have an
-end, or you’ll be sorry.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>The lovely Pussyanita bowed and began the Story of
-the Janjibo, and of the Frog and the Rat.</p>
-
-<div id='p190'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i190.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Story of the Janjibo, and of the Frog and the Rat.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i191a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Watching the Rat.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Once upon a time, a long time ago, a family of rats
-made a home for themselves in a haymow, and a good
-home it was. Corn, and potatoes, and hayseed and other
-things were handy. With all these good things handy,
-one of the young rats must needs walk into a trap. Two
-cats had long been watching the family, and when they
-saw this young rat go towards the trap, they sprang, and
-one of them caught him by the end of his tail just as he
-was going in, and pulled him out, but he got away and
-ran down-stairs, and the two cats after him, and at the
-bottom of the stairs he ran into something with a big
-hole at the big end and a small hole at the small end. He
-went in at the big hole, and the cats went in at the big
-hole after him. He
-went out at the small
-hole. It was just
-big enough for him
-to go through, and
-was not big enough
-for the cats to go
-through, and they
-turned round quick,
-and got tangled up
-in each other, and
-went out and went
-round outside and chased him, but the young rat had
-jumped out of a window.
-He was so
-frightened that he
-ran, and ran, and
-ran, across fields and
-hills, and got lost
-in a boggy swamp,
-and a great snapping
-turtle would
-have snapped him
-up, if a young frog
-had not begged the
-snapping turtle to let him live. The snapping turtle
-said he would let him live if the young frog would
-take care of him. The young frog said he would if his
-mother would be willing. The young frog’s mother said
-he might take care of him if the young rat would promise
-not to eat any tadpoles.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i191b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>In After Him.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat promised not to eat any tadpoles, and
-the young frog took care of him and they lived together,
-and played tag together, and hide-and-seek together, and
-tiltered together, and did other things together. When
-the frog hid he croaked for the rat to come and find him,
-and when the rat hid he squealed for the frog to come
-and find him. When the frog hid among the cat-o’-nine-tails,
-the young rat wouldn’t play; and when they played
-tag, if the frog went among the cat-o’-nine-tails the rat
-wouldn’t chase. When they played tilter, they had to tilt
-high so that the frog’s legs need not touch the ground.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat was happy, and had no wish to return
-to his family. He went to all the frog concerts, and tried
-to get the frog tunes, but as he could only squeak them,
-or squeal them, and could not croak them, he could not
-get the frog tunes.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i193.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>They Had to Tilt High.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“At last his family heard where he was, and begged
-his aunt to go fetch him home, as she had no children,
-and could leave home as well as not. His aunt said she
-would go as soon as news should come from the King of
-the Cats. The King of the Cats was expected to die. He
-had caught a bad cold wading for eels on a damp day, and
-had taken to his bed, and
-called in Doctor Bowwow, and
-Doctor Bowwow had looked
-at his tongue and told him he
-could not live. The young
-rat’s family begged his aunt
-to go right off. She said she
-wished to wait and hear of the
-death of the King of the Cats,
-for that would be good to
-hear.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i195.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As soon as word came
-that the King of the Cats was
-dead, the young rat’s aunt set off to the far-off swamp,
-and found it, but by that time the young rat had gone
-with the young frog to live on the edge of the pond. She
-looked all through the swamp, and got her feet wet, and
-lost her way, and tangled herself in the swamp-vines, and
-caught herself in a swamp-vine string and could not get
-away, and there she stayed until the day of the Wonderful
-News.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The Wonderful News was brought by a travelling
-kangaroo. As the young rat and the frog were sitting one
-evening by the edge of the pond, a kangaroo came leaping
-past, and stopped between two of his leaps
-and said, ‘Wonderful News! Peace between the
-cats and the rats and mice! All friends!’ and the
-kangaroo leaped on.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i196.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Wonderful news indeed!’ said the young rat.
-‘I must let the water rats know.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The frog said he would attend to
-that, and he got upon a log and croaked,
-‘Wonderful news! Peace between
-the cats and the rats and mice!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Other frogs heard him, and sat
-upon logs, stones, rocks and stumps,
-and croaked, ‘Wonderful news! Peace
-between the cats and the rats and mice!’ and other frogs
-heard these other frogs, and croaked the same, and the
-great bull-frogs got hold of it and bellowed it, and frogs
-and bull-frogs in other ponds and swamps and bogs heard
-it, and croaked it and bellowed it, and before morning the
-Wonderful News was known to every water rat far and
-near; and the water rats told the land rats as quickly as
-they could.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat’s aunt heard it in the swamp, and
-jumped hard and broke the swamp-vine string, and set off
-on a gallop, this way and that way, and the wrong way,
-and lost her way, and away she went.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat said he must travel off somewhere and
-hear how it all happened, and he and the frog set out together
-and travelled. Sometimes the young rat let the
-frog ride on his back, because he could go faster by runs
-than the frog could by leaps. The rat could not go frog-back,
-because it was so hard to keep on. When they had
-travelled a long way they met a mother rat, with her baby
-in her mouth, running as fast as she could go.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i197.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat asked her to stop and speak to him,
-and she stopped. The young rat then asked the mother
-rat where she was going so fast, and the mother rat said
-her baby was too sick to be left alone, and that she could
-not stay away from the Janjibo, and she was carrying the
-baby to stay at its grandfather’s till she should come back
-from the Janjibo. The young rat asked her what there
-was to be a Janjibo for.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She asked him if he had not heard the ‘Wonderful
-News.’ He said he had, and that he wished to know
-how it all happened. The mother rat then said that if
-they would come to her baby’s grandfather’s, they could
-then go with her to the Janjibo, and on the way there she
-would tell them how it all happened. They went with
-her to her baby’s grandfather’s and then to the Janjibo,
-and this is what the mother rat told.”</p>
-
-<div id='p198'  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i198.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>What the Mother Rat Told.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c014'>“After the King of the Cats died, and the King of the
-Cats’ son had been made king, the rats and mice sent to
-ask if the cats and the rats and mice could not be friends,
-so that there might be peace between them. The new
-king said he did not think it would be a good plan at all,
-but he would see what the dogs had to say about it, for
-dogs had the name of knowing more than cats. He
-picked out three of his wisest cats, and sent them to the
-dogs, and the dogs picked out two of their chief dogs, one
-named Know and
-the other named
-Quick, and the two
-dogs and the three
-cats met together.
-Quick asked Know
-what cats could
-live upon if they
-did not eat rats,
-and mice. Know
-said that if cats should give up catching, then people
-would feed them more. People kept from feeding them
-so as to make them catch.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id016'>
-<img src='images/i199.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Wise Cats and Dogs.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The wisest of the three wise cats said that dogs were
-not expected to catch; they were fed by people.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Know asked if it was great trouble to catch rats
-and mice. The next wisest of the three cats said that
-if he should try it he would find that it was much easier
-to eat off a plate, or even off the floor, than to sit half
-the night in a cold barn, or cellar,
-or garret, tired and hungry, watching
-rat-holes and mouse-holes.
-Quick asked if rat-holes and mouse-holes
-could not be in rooms people
-lived in where it would be pleasant
-for a cat to sit and watch. Know
-said that could not be, for rats and
-mice did not like people as well as
-cats did.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i200.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Pledges of Good Faith.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The end of it all was that the
-dogs thought it would be a good
-thing for the cats to be friends with
-the rats and mice, and a little bird
-that heard all the talk told the Kangaroos.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“In order to be sure that the cats
-and the rats and mice should do
-right by each other, the dogs said
-that the rats must give up a baby
-rat to be kept by the cats, and the
-cats must give up a baby cat to be
-kept by the rats. This was done.
-The baby rat was youngest of a
-family of four children, and the baby
-cat was the youngest of a family of four. The dogs said
-this would make it even.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The three cats walked in procession with the baby
-in front, and their oldest sister walked after them all, and
-the three rats walked in procession with their baby in
-front and their oldest sister walked after them all. But
-when they came in sight of each other, the rats were
-afraid of the cats and went behind their oldest sister.
-The oldest sister of the rats then took the baby cat in
-her mouth, and the cat procession started, and when the
-oldest sister of the cats came to the baby rat she took
-that in her mouth and then the rat procession started,
-and both processions walked away, and the baby rat
-is now staying with the cats, and the baby cat stays with
-the rats, and all is well. We do not have to hide in
-holes and under floors and behind walls, and our
-children will all live to grow up, unless they get sick from
-eating poison, as my baby did.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i202.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“And now that we are all friends, the cats and the
-rats and mice are going to meet together and have
-a Janjibo, and there is to be fine music and the tables
-are to be spread with everything nice. The dogs said
-that as the rats and mice were the ones to ask to be
-friends they must be the ones to bring things to eat,
-and they are working with all their might to get ready
-the pies, and cakes, and jellies, and ice-creams, and nuts,
-and sweet corn, and cheeses, and eggs, and dishes, and
-knives, and forks, and spoons. We shall soon see them,
-for we are near the place where the Janjibo is to be.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As the frog and the young rat and the mother rat
-came near the place where the Janjibo was to be, they
-saw rats hurry skurrying as fast as they could with
-cakes, pies, dishes and other things. They met gentlemen
-rats in their best clothes, carrying knives, forks
-and spoons, and
-looking everywhere
-for eggs.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i203.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Way the Egg Went Safely.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Three of these
-gentlemen rats in
-their best clothes,
-found an egg and
-began to roll it.
-‘We shall break it
-doing this way,’ said
-one to the others.
-‘I am afraid we
-shall,’ said the others,
-and they stopped to think. The mother rat went to
-them and said: ‘The shells of eggs are too thin.
-Shells of eggs should be thicker.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘But I can tell you a way. Let one of you gentlemen lie
-flat on his back and hold the egg with all four of his
-legs and let the
-other two gentlemen
-draw that one
-by his tail; then
-the egg will go safe
-and the gentleman
-will get a ride.’</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i205.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They did so.
-The gentleman rat
-that had the knife
-gave the knife to
-the gentleman rat
-that had the fork and lay down flat on his back, and held
-the egg in all four of his legs and the other two drew
-him by his tail and the egg went safe and he got a ride.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Next came a lively young cat with a pudding-bag
-string. She said she was frolicking with the rats and was
-running away with their pudding-bag string. She said
-she did not care about the Janjibo. She did not care
-about the peace. She wanted to have a good time. She
-did not know if she should like to be friends with the
-rats and mice. Sometimes it was good fun to catch
-them.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i206.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Cat Ran Away With the Pudding-Bag String.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c015'>“The mother rat told her that she was very naughty,
-and the rats could not do without their pudding-bag string
-and that she must carry it back to them. She did not.
-She went dancing
-away with it.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Next came a great
-many rats with a pie
-so big they could
-hardly lift it. They
-were afraid they
-should drop it, and
-they held it up with
-all their might by their heads and their backs, and their
-shoulders. The Pie-cutter with his knife came close behind.
-The young rat went to help.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i207.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Rats, the Pie and the Pie-Cutter.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i208.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Mother Rat Told the Pie-Cutter How to Cut It.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The frog said he should be willing to help, but he
-should have to go with leaps, and going with leaps was
-not a good way to go with a pie. The mother rat said to
-them, ‘You’d better set it down and cut it, and then it will
-be all ready to be passed round. Set it down and cut it,
-and you can rest while you are cutting it. Cut it first in
-large pieces, and then cut the large pieces into small pieces.
-The pie must all be cut in small pieces or there may not
-be enough to go round.’ They set it down, and the mother
-rat told the Pie-cutter the right way to cut it, and he cut
-it the right way. Just as the Pie-cutter had done cutting
-it, the young rat looked at a light-colored rat that
-was among the other ones, and said, ‘There’s my aunt.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It was his aunt. The one that was tangled in the
-swamp-vine string, and broke it in jumping when she
-heard the Wonderful News, and got away, and lost her
-way. She did not find the way she lost, but she found
-her way to the Janjibo, and was helping.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘So you are my nephew!’ she said. ‘How you have
-grown! Do you know that the cats and the rats and mice
-are friends?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Oh yes,’ said the young rat. ‘A travelling kangaroo
-told me.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Friends indeed!’ said his aunt. ‘Look yonder. Do
-you see what is doing yonder? That is your little brother.
-Perhaps you never knew that your little brother could
-take pictures.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Never,’ said the young rat. ‘Can he?’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Yes; he can,’ said his aunt. ‘Yonder he is now,
-taking the picture of a Tabby. He has plenty to do.
-There is another close by, waiting for her turn.’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Why!’ cried the young rat. ‘They are the very
-same ones that chased me when I was a little rat and
-made me run away!’</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Yes’ his aunt said. ‘They are friendly now. What
-are you going to do?
-Do you want to help
-us get ready?’</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i210.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘I do,’ said the
-young rat.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“‘Step in here
-then,’ said his aunt.
-‘Step in to this Ice-cream
-Place, and
-stir up the ice-cream.
-Stir it up with your
-fore paws.’ They two stepped into the Ice-cream Place,
-and the young rat’s aunt showed him how to stir up the
-ice-cream with his fore paws. While he was doing this a cat
-peeped through the door at him. His aunt thought by the
-looks of the cat’s eye that it was a cat that had not heard
-of the peace.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“She was so afraid the cat did not know of the
-peace and would eat the young rat that she caught hold
-of his tail quick and pulled him with all her might and
-they ran out of the Ice-cream Place by two rat-holes.
-The mother rat and the frog were waiting for the young
-rat and he travelled on with them.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i211.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Afraid He Had Not Heard of the Peace.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“That cat would not have hurt the young rat. She
-did know of the peace and she was gathering up rats for
-the Janjibo. The young rat and the frog and the mother
-rat saw her afterwards showing a great many rats that
-had come from afar, the way into the Janjibo and even
-taking up the tired ones in her mouth and carrying them
-in.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i213.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>Taking Up the Tired Ones in Her Mouth.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Three young
-kittens sat watching
-her while they
-waited for their
-mother. They
-were dressed in
-their best clothes
-and white gloves, all ready to dance a jig at the
-Janjibo.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They were waiting for their mother to go in with
-them. Their mother taught them the jig and she
-was coming to fiddle for them to dance. They were in a
-hurry for her to come because they were afraid of a fierce
-black rat who stood near by with his gun. The fierce
-black rat had been ordered to stand there with his gun to
-keep off the rabbits. The rabbits had been heard to say
-they did not like the peace between the cats and the rats
-and mice, and that they meant to break it up, and meant
-to break up the Janjibo.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id010'>
-<img src='images/i214a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Sentinel.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As soon as the mother rat and the frog and the young
-rat went into the Janjibo, the mother
-rat met with her oldest daughter, just
-from home, and she kept with her mother
-and the young rat was polite to her.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A very great number came to the
-Janjibo. The supper was good, and
-after supper the ones who could tell
-stories told stories, and the ones who
-could sing songs, sang songs, and the
-ones who could talk, talked. A mouse
-with a lame hind leg said she hoped all cats would
-know of the peace and told a Spinning Story.</p>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c021' />
-</div>
-<div id='p214'  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i214b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>A Spinning Story.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>“She said that one day when she and her sisters sat
-spinning in the barn, a cat looked in at the window.
-They did not run, for why should they run when cats and
-mice were friends? The cat that was looking in the
-window had not heard of the peace and she jumped at
-them. Then they ran but she and one of her sisters did
-not run quick enough, and her sister was bitten in the
-head and she herself was bitten in the hind leg, and made
-lame for life.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Three blind and feeble mice without any tails then
-told the Blind Mice Story.</p>
-
-<div id='p215'  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i215a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Blind Mice Story.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i215b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“They were born blind, and were obliged to find their
-way by their noses. A farmer’s wife had been giving
-corn to the hens and
-some of the corn was
-left in her pocket, and
-they smelled the corn
-and ran after the farmer’s
-wife, and she cut
-off their tails with a carving
-knife. Now they could not run very fast, for no rat
-can run fast unless he feels his tail behind him.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“A cat of the name of Henry, said this story made him
-think of the Air-Ball Story.</p>
-<div id='p216'  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i216a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Air-Ball Story.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i216b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>“Three kittens, Faw, Sol, and Law, were once playing
-in a yard when
-a short boy named
-Chickerchecker
-came and tied air-balls
-to their tails
-so that he might
-have the fun of seeing
-the air-balls take
-Faw, Sol, and Law
-up in the air.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“When Faw, Sol,
-and Law began to
-feel the back ends
-of themselves going up they did not know what to do
-to keep them down and they mewed and mewed and
-stuck the claws of their fore paws into the ground.
-Chickerchecker was much pleased.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id009'>
-<img src='images/i217.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Their mother was the other side of the wall and near
-enough to hear them
-mew. She knew
-that if they mewed
-so, something was
-the matter. She
-sprang to the top of
-the wall and looked
-over and when she
-saw what had been
-done she was very
-angry, and jumped
-down, and took the
-air-balls off of Faw,
-Sol, and Law’s tails and tied them to Chickerchecker, and
-Chickerchecker went over the wall and blew into a tree.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Faw, Sol, and Law were so much pleased that they
-danced up and down. Their mother also was much
-pleased.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“At the end of this story the singing Tommies sang
-the funny song of the Bold Young Fishbone and the
-Gay Young Wishbone.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“It began with</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c022'>
-  <div class='linegroup'>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>There was a bold young Fishbone,</div>
-      <div class='line in4'>Finnery, finnery fi!</div>
-      <div class='line'>There was a gay young Wishbone,</div>
-      <div class='line in4'>Winnery, winnery, wi!</div>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c023'>and ended in the same manner.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id011'>
-<img src='images/i218.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The singing Tommies had new jackets and trousers
-and new gloves, as of course
-any singers would have who
-were to sing at a Janjibo.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“After this song and others
-were sung the kittens who came
-to dance a jig, danced it. Their
-mother played the fiddle well, and they danced their
-steps well and gave much pleasure to all present. All
-present were happy in the peace and no doubt the peace
-would have lasted to this day if the rabbits and the hens
-had not broken it up.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The rabbits and the hens did not like the peace. The
-rabbits said that cats must eat and if they did not eat rats
-and mice they must eat rabbits. The hens said that if no
-rats were eaten they would every one live to grow up and
-would eat all the corn and the hens and other fowl would
-wear themselves out scratching for worms. They said
-they should like to get hold of the frogs, for if the frogs
-had kept still, so many rats would not have heard the
-Wonderful News.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i219.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>They Danced Their Steps Well.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The rabbits said they did not believe the Lion knew
-of the peace and they meant to send him word and ask
-him to stop it. The cats would have to do whatever he
-should say, for the Lion was the head of their family
-besides being king
-of all the animals.</p>
-
-<div  class='figright id007'>
-<img src='images/i220.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The cat that
-ran away with the
-Pudding-Bag
-String was known
-to think not very
-well of the peace
-and she was asked
-to go and speak
-to the Lion. She said she would go, but must first borrow
-her grandmother’s boots of swiftness. Her grandmother
-was just taking her tea and felt very well. She
-said she was not using her boots and was willing to lend
-them if they could be taken good care of. The cat that
-ran away with the Pudding Bag String put them on and
-went to speak to the Lion.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id007'>
-<img src='images/i222.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The Lion said the peace was the funniest thing he ever
-heard of, and made him almost die a laughing. He told
-the cat that ran
-away with the Pudding
-Bag String
-to tell the cats
-there never could
-be peace between
-the cats and the
-rats and mice, and
-never should be
-so long as Lions
-were Lions, and to tell the rabbits and the hens and
-other fowl to break up the Janjibo.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i223.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic002'>
-<p>The Frog Going Ratback.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c015'>“As soon as the rabbits and hens and other fowl
-heard this they got together from all parts and went
-leaping and running and flying into the Janjibo, crying
-‘No peace! No peace! The Lion says no peace.’ The
-hens cackled it, the roosters crowed it, the geese squawked
-it, the turkeys gobbled it, the guinea fowl squalled it, the
-peacocks screamed it, and the Janjibo was broken up and
-the rats and mice ran away quick, for if there was no
-peace they were in dreadful danger.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The young rat was in a hurry to get away from the
-cats, and the frog was in a hurry to get away from the
-hens and other fowl. The young rat said that as he
-could go faster by runs than the frog could by leaps, he
-would take the frog ratback. The frog threw on a hat
-and cloak to hide himself, as he had to sit high, in plain
-sight, and got on the young rat’s back, and they went so
-swift that the frog lost his hat off behind.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“The mother rat and her daughter kept as near them as
-they could. When the young rat grew tired he begged
-the frog to whip him and make him go fast, for he would
-rather be whipped than be caught by the cats.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“He was not caught. They both reached their home
-at the edge of the pond, and left that home no more. The
-young rat married the mother rat’s daughter, and they
-had many children, and the frog married the frog he
-loved best, and had a large family of little tadpoles, and
-the little tadpoles played with the little rats and the little
-rats played with the little tadpoles, and the little rats told
-rat stories, and the little tadpoles told tadpole stories, and
-they all lived happily all their lives.”</p>
-
-<hr class='c020' />
-
-<p class='c015'>“And that is the end of the story, your majesty,” said
-the lovely Pussyanita. “And a good end,” said King
-Grimalkum. “I knew I should like the story. Is it truly
-the silliest story that ever was?” “Yes, your majesty,”
-replied Pussyanita. “The silliest, I mean, of our kind of
-stories. Of course it is not as silly as the stories the
-little tadpoles told the little rats.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Were the stories the little tadpoles told the little
-rats, sillier than the ones the little rats told the little
-tadpoles?” asked the king.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Much sillier,” replied Pussyanita.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Tell them,” said the king.</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“But your majesty,” replied Pussyanita, “there were
-swarms of little tadpoles and I have not long to live.”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“You shall live as long as you can, you lovely creature!”
-cried the king. “Do you think I would put an
-end to the life of a sweet young story-teller who can tell
-both common sense stories and not common sense stories?
-No! Live! Live and be happy!”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“Alas!” replied the lovely Pussyanita. “I cannot be
-happy when so many of my kind are in danger. Oh, take
-back your cruel command! Let our whole race live!”</p>
-
-<p class='c015'>“I do take it back,” answered the king. “For your
-sake the whole race shall live.”</p>
-
-<hr class='c020' />
-
-<p class='c015'>The cruel command was taken back. The whole race
-of cats were allowed to live. Those which were “white,
-or yellow, or which had more white or yellow hairs than
-dark ones,” all these as well as the “black, Maltese and
-gray,” were for Pussyanita’s sake allowed to live.</p>
-
-<hr class='c020' />
-
-<p class='c015'>“Here, uncle Fred, is your Cats’ Arabian Nights
-Story Book,” said cousin Lucia, “all ready for the children
-when they shall come next summer with their
-fathers and mothers; and I hope they will have as much
-fun in hearing it as I had in writing it.”</p>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
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-        form was found in this book.
-        </li>
-      </ul>
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