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    The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales
    The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales
    The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales
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    The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales

    By Harry L. Smith and Arthur Scott Bailey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales - Harry L. Smith

      Project Gutenberg's The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat, by Arthur Scott Bailey

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      Title: The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat

      Slumber-Town Tales

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Illustrator: Harry L. Smith

      Release Date: April 15, 2007 [EBook #21078]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MISS KITTY CAT ***

      Produced by Joe and Grace Longo

      THE TALE OF

      MISS KITTY CAT

      Miss Kitty Cat Chased Old Dog Spot.

      Copyright, 1919, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE TALE OF

      MISS KITTY CAT

      I

      A TERRIBLE PERSON

      The rats and the mice thought that Miss Kitty Cat was a terrible person. She was altogether too fond of hunting them. They agreed, however, that in one way it was pleasant to have her about the farmhouse. When she washed her face, while sitting on the doorsteps, they knew—so they said!—that it was going to rain. And then Mrs. Rat never would let her husband leave home without taking his umbrella.

      As a rule Miss Kitty Cat didn't look at all frightful. Almost always she appeared quite unruffled, going about her business in a quiet way and making no fuss over anything. Of course when old dog Spot chased—and cornered—her, she was quite a different sort of creature. Then she arched her back, puffed her tail out to twice its usual size, and spat fiercely at Spot. He learned not to get within reach of her sharp claws, when she behaved in that fashion. For old Spot had a tender nose. And no one knew it better than Miss Kitty Cat.

      Around the farmhouse she was politeness itself—when there was anybody to observe her. If her meals were late she never clamored, as Johnnie Green sometimes did. To be sure, she might remind Mrs. Green gently, by plaintive mewing, that she had not had her saucer of milk. But she was always careful not to be rude about it. And though Miss Kitty liked a warm place in winter, she never crowded anybody else away from the fire. She crept under the kitchen range, where no one else cared to sit. And there she would doze by the hour—especially after she had enjoyed a hearty meal.

      On summer nights, however, when she loved to hunt out of doors, Miss Kitty Cat was far from appearing sleepy. She roamed about the fields, or crept through the tree-tops with a stealthy tread and a tigerish working of her tail. Folk smaller than Miss Kitty never cared to meet her at such times. They knew that she would spring upon them if she had a chance. So they took good care to keep out of her way. And if they caught sight of her when she had her hunting manner they always gave the alarm in their own fashion, warning their friends to beware of the monster Miss Kitty Cat, because she was abroad and in a dangerous mood.

      Johnnie Green liked Miss Kitty. Often she would come to him and rub against him and purr, fairly begging him to stroke her back. Unless he pulled her tail at such times she kept her claws carefully out of sight and basked under Johnnie's petting.

      If he had been her size and she had been his, Miss Kitty Cat might not have been so harmless.

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