The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

By Amy Walton

Amy Walton, better known as Mrs. O.F. Walton, was a 20th century British writer best known for kids books with Christian themes. Many of them are still read today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krill Press
• Release date: Jan 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781518376191

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THE KITCHEN CAT AND OTHER STORIES

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Amy Walton

PITHY PRESS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE KITCHEN CAT AND OTHER STORIES

THE KITCHEN CAT: CHAPTER I: The Visitor from the Cellar

CHAPTER II: Her Best Friend

SARAH’S SUNDAY OUT

THE TOAD IN THE HOLE

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

By

Amy Walton

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

Published by Pithy Press

New York City, NY

First published circa 1939

Copyright © Pithy Press, 2015

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THE KITCHEN CAT AND OTHER STORIES

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BY

Author of The Hawthorns Susan

A Pair of Clogs &c.

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THE KITCHEN CAT: CHAPTER I: THE VISITOR FROM THE CELLAR

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THE WHOLE HOUSE IN LONDON was dull and gloomy, its lofty rooms and staircases were filled with a sort of misty twilight all day, and the sun very seldom looked in at its windows. Ruth Lorimer thought, however, that the very dullest room of all was the nursery, in which she had to pass so much of her time. It was so high up that the people and carts and horses in the street below looked like toys. She could not even see these properly, because there were iron bars to prevent her from stretching her head out too far, so that all she could do was to look straight across to the row of tall houses opposite, or up at the sky between the chimney-pots. How she longed for something different to look at!

The houses always looked the same, and though the sky changed sometimes, it was often of a dirty grey colour, and then Ruth gave a little sigh and looked back from the window-seat where she was kneeling, into the nursery, for something to amuse her. It was full of all sorts of toys—dolls, and dolls’ houses elegantly furnished, pictures and books and