Cat and Dog Stories.
with it.
patting
now
tosses
She
it -
it to
and
preparatory,
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fro, now
no
biting it,
doubt, to
swallow-
Pussy!
See, the
ing it.
"But
do not
be too sure, Miss
ball flies from her, as if possessed with life.
away, on
and
dead, seems struck with wonder.
she thinks;
then
scamper, scamper,
'Can
it be alive after
a spring and a leap, and she
has caught the ball again.
Once more it escapes from
her claws-once more she bounds towards it,
it is surely hers.
it
must be a mouse inside it!'
'there
all?'
rolls
Pussy, who had thought
And
on.
It
and now
I confess it was rather interesting to
me to look on, and more than once I nearly joined in
the chase after the ball myself.
Then Pussy would roll
about on the floor with it, but never did she find a
mouse inside
herself thus!
it.
Poor Pussy, every day she deceived
Then I would laugh to myself.
such silly aimless things!
Cats are
They have no higher motives
than a soft ball!"
"Yes,"
said Miss
began your story?"
Perkie, "but
isn't
it
time you