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    The Story of a China Cat
    The Story of a China Cat
    The Story of a China Cat
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    The Story of a China Cat

    By Harry L. Smith and Laura Lee Hope

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Story of a China Cat - Harry L. Smith

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of a China Cat, by Laura Lee Hope, Illustrated by Harry L. Smith

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      Title: The Story of a China Cat

      Author: Laura Lee Hope

      Release Date: September 19, 2006 [eBook #19333]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF A CHINA CAT***

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      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      MAKE BELIEVE STORIES

      (Trademark Registered)

      THE STORY OF A

      CHINA CAT

      BY

      LAURA LEE HOPE

      Author of the Story of a Sawdust Doll, "The

      Story of a Nodding Donkey, The Bobbsey Twins

      Series, The Bunny Brown Series, The

      Six Little Bunkers Series," Etc.

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      HARRY L. SMITH

      NEW YORK

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      PUBLISHERS

      Made in the United States of America

      BOOKS

      By LAURA LEE HOPE

      Durably Bound. Illustrated.

      MAKE BELIEVE STORIES

      THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES

      THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES

      THE SIX LITTLE BUNKERS SERIES

      THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES

      Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York

      Copyright, 1921, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      The Story of a China Cat

      The China Cat Has a Ride in Nodding Donkey's Wagon.

      Frontispiece—(Page 113)

      CONTENTS

      THE STORY OF A

      CHINA CAT

      CHAPTER I

      TOY-SHOP FUN

      Toot! Toot! Tootity-toot-toot!

      Goodness me! who is blowing the horn? asked the Talking Doll, as she sat up on the shelf in the toy shop. This isn't Friday; and we don't want any fish!

      Speak for yourself, if you please, said a large, white China Cat, who had just finished washing a few specks of dirt off her shiny coat with her red tongue. I could enjoy a bit of fish right now.

      I should rather have pie, said the Talking Doll. But who blew the horn? That is what I'd like to know. No one has a horn in this toy shop that I know anything about.

      It wasn't a horn—that was a trumpet, said another voice. I'll blow it again!

      Then there sounded a jolly noise through the quiet toy shop, which was in darkness except for one electric light in the middle of the store.

      Toot! Toot! Tootity-toot-toot! echoed the merry notes.

      What a pretty sound, said the Jumping Jack, as he jerked his arms and legs up and down, for he had just awakened from his long day of sleep.

      Isn't it nice, agreed Tumbling Tom, a queer toy who never could stand up, because he was made in such a funny way that he always fell down. I wonder if there is going to be a parade?

      Who is blowing that horn, anyway? asked the Talking Doll.

      I tell you it isn't a horn—it's a trumpet, and I am blowing it, said a voice in the front part of the toy store. I came in only to-day, but I thought perhaps you other toys would like a little music, so I tuned up my trumpet. But please don't call it a horn. I am not a fish man!

      With that there came walking along the shelf, from the front part of the store, a little man wearing a blue coat, dark red trousers, and a hat with a long, sweeping plume. I say he was a little man, but I mean he was a toy, dressed up like a man such as you see in fairy stories. In his hand he carried a little golden trumpet.

      As he walked along the shelf, where the other toys stood, the Trumpeter, for such he was, blew another blast on his golden instrument.

      And the blast was such a jolly one that every toy in the store felt like dancing or singing. The Jumping Jack worked his arms and legs faster than they had ever jerked about before. The Talking Doll swayed on her feet as though waltzing, and even the China Cat beat time with her tail.

      That certainly was very nice, said the Talking Doll, when the Trumpeter had finished the tune. Did you say you just came here to be one of us?

      Just to-day, was the answer. I came in a large box, straight from the workshop of Santa Claus, at the North Pole, and I—

      Oh! The North Pole! suddenly mewed the China Cat.

      What's the matter? Does it make you chilly to hear about the North Pole, where I came from? asked the Trumpeter.

      No, answered the Cat. I was just thinking of a friend of mine who once lived there. You remember him, she added, turning to the Jumping Jack. I mean the Nodding Donkey.

      Of course I remember him! said the Jumping Jack. I should say I did! A most jolly chap, always bowing to you in the most friendly way. He isn't here any more.

      No, he was bought for a little lame boy who had to go on crutches, said the Talking Doll. "I remember the Nodding Donkey very well. I say he was bought for a little lame boy. But the truth of the matter is that the lame boy got well, and now is just like other

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