The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-12-09
NO. 80.

Heppy was very proud, and the little blind
] things bobbed about for a while, and then
| put them back, and went 10 the parlOr and
told mother and the little girls mother said
/ might keep one, and all tho others must be
drowned; and the little girl cried, and after
| supper she went 10 her own room and sat in
the dark, and thought, and thought, for
nearly half an hour. and then | jumped up,
and took down my slate from the nail and
wrote" Give one kitten to Mrs. Andrews"
And then | sat down and thought and thought,
| and all at once another thing came into my
mind, and took the slate and wrote down
Give another TO Miss Sophronia that was
the little girls teacher And then thought
again, till the clock in the little entry struck
nine and Just as it struck tho ninth time, il
came 10 me that father used to say he wanted
q cat at the barn, and so wrote that down
and then it was bedtime, and still there was
one kitten left Oh, that was dreadful even
ing went to bed and cried and thought,
and Dried, till found myself going TO sleep,
and still nothing would come in my mind about
that poor little fifth kitten and thought, what
cruel girl you are, Emma, to go TO sleep and
! forget about the poor little thing that has 10
| be drowned tomorrow. SO ! pnched myself
! till got wide awake and then all of sudden
] thought Of old Hansey, by the Greek, ther
names Ann but they call her Nanny Han
sey for short and she had four cats already
that she took from people 10 save them from
being drowned; but / thought likely she might
take another and SO | felt easy in my mind
and went 10 sleep; and next morning, long be
fore breakfast ran down to Nam Hansey's
and she wasn't up and the door was bolted
but she told me if | got n stick and put it
through hole in the door, the bolt would push
back, and went in and told Nam Hansey
about the fifth kitten, and she said she had
three too many now, but she would walk over
and look at them, and if There was a very pretty
one, she might take it; aud told her they were
all beautiful, and 30 she went over with me,
and took her to the back kitchen, and put
the five kittens on the floor, and Nam Hansey
looked at them great while and at last she
picked out the prettiest and said that If il had
only been black, with Il white nose and a white
collar round its neck, and white tip on its
: tail she. thought she would have kept it, and
then she put on her bonnet, and oil was as
bad az ever for the poor little fifth kitten And
mother said il must be drowned and she sent
for Jake, and he brought a big bucket from
the stable and mother told us all to 20 away
and take the poor old mother puss with us till
it was all over and ] said u0-if the darling
little fifth kitten must be killed know Heppy
would rather ! should do it than Jake, for
Heppy couldn't bear Jake and he didn't like
Heppy; and so | sent Jake away and mother
carried Heppy to the parlor, and Hansey and
| took them all out of the box, and didn't
know what TO do, for we couldn't tell which
t0dS the fifth kitten and | said, when wrote
down one for father am sure ! meant the
brown one and when SGT down one for Mrs
: Andrews | think it was the yellow and black,
but the other three are all mixed in my mind
and don't SEQ how we can tell which meant
for the fifth and Nam Hansey said we should
leave the two in the box, and put the other
three in my lap and the first that crawled out
should be tho poor little fifth and so we did,
and sat quite still for a good many minutes
and then the darling little white with brown
ears put out its little soft paws, and travelled
over my knee and down to my foot, and rolled
itself out on tho floor; and then sighed and
Nam Hanscy sighed, and | took the darling
blind little fifth, and dropped into the water,
aud turned my back to the bucket, and Nam
Hansey stood off by the wall, and shut her lips
tight, and said nothing and all at once her
face got very red and she dashed up 10 the
bucket, and took out the little fifth, and wiped
it dry with her apron, and turned to me quite
angry, and said, now she had five, and should
never dare 10 offer her a kitten again for she
wouldn't take it, and then remembered that
she had said just that last winter, when gave
her the gray and black with white feet aud
40 she left il few days, and tlan took il home.
and it was the funniest little soft fat thing YOU
ever saw, and there 10 is this worry day and
that's all.
TO BE Continued