Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-02-16
K!TTY'S LETTER.

and authentic pOfDTdlb Oh HcI
She was a graceful, frolicsome, live
lv little creature, and specially addict
ed to running round after her own tail.
As she never could catch 1t, the interest
of the pursuit never abated. For you
see if she had once caught it she would
have found ont that it was only her own
tail and net a wonderful meteor, and
she would nave found, moreover, that
her own tail was not n convenient play
thing. In this respect she was like
someyoung people / know of, who are
always on the chase after something
that they cannot get, and very soon tire
OF everything that they can get.
But must tell you about kitty's let
ter In these days, you know, every
body takes to writing, Old ladies' and
young ladies and little girls rnd little
boys all try their hands, SO that the
world is in fair way of knowing just
how it looks to everybody; and why
should not Pussy have her turn
At all events, g. one morning Karl and
Lulu found the following letter tied
round her neck with blue ribbon.
Did Kitty write iti What did she
write with Did she tie it round her
own neck And where did she get the
ribbon?
Patience, my dear little folks, -how
should l know everything2 If Kitty
didn't write the letter, who did, and
how should | know where she got her
ink and paper2 All I know is. that
Karl and Lulu came scampering to
their mamma (who perhaps knew more)
with the following letter -
Ny DEAR Folks IN THE WORLD:
You think you know good deal, and
perhaps you do, but there is one thing
YOU don't know, and that is how kittens
feel People think that | never have
any cares or troubles, because / go
racketing round so, but n kittens fur
may often cover deep sorrow.
In the first place, let me AJAX you, Karl
and Lulu, how would you like it if
.reat giant six feet high, could catch
III up any minute, and whirl you over
md hang you with your head downward
or tumble you over on your back, and
roll You round rs if you were so much
hay Well, that is the way l am
treated half the time. Nobody consid
ers what like Nobody ever says,
"Here, Pussy, would you like to be |
taken up - or "Will you please to let
me? but they catch me and do all sorts
things to me, without even saying " BY
your leave"
Haynt kittens some rights that child |
rem are bound to respecta | have |
had hard and suffering life, can tell
you, risky as | SEEM The first | can
remember | was taken, moving and
screaming, from my dear mother and
given to lady who wanted play.hing |
tor her dear Billy. Billy used to carry
me round under his arm with my head
hanging down till all the blood ran into
it, and | verify thought l should |
die. When be felt affection
tionate he used to squeeze me till
yelled with pain. He used to pull me
out and double me up as if had been
molasses candy, and when | cried and
scratched, all the comfort got was that |
mamma would say, Dear little Billy, |
how afraid | am he may get scratched
4 kitten amuses hun SO that l like to |
have him have her, but at the sam
time | am afraid she may hurt him"
Dear little Billy had temper of his .
own, can tell You. When rslrse want
ed to brush his hair, or when she took
papa's razor away, which he had helped |
himself to, then Master Billy would .
grow red III the face and throw himself
on the floor and kick and scream like "a
little tiend.
"Get him the kitten mamma
would say Where's Billy's kitten p
Then ! would be caught and given to
him to torment; he wuald throw me
across the floor, pull my tail, strike me,
clutch me round my throat and in other
ways work off his spite on me
81 do believe, ma'am, he'll kill that
kittensome day, nurse ventured to say.
go, no matter, there are plenty more
II he does, says mamma
How | used to hate the little monster
and wish great big king cat, lion
cat, might get him and shake and box
him round as he did me! suppose if
a hon should give Billy to her cubs to
amuse them when they were out of
temper there would be no end of wall
ing and weeping, but for my part |
don't see but 1t would be tOierablv
fair proceeding. What right had she
to use me for a plaything for her dear
little Billy But little Billy was so
convinced that | was made for his
amusement that every day he invented
"A new thing to do with me- He put me
in box with stones and ratified me-
He threw me into tub of water to see
if | could swim, and kept me
half drowning there till Susan
came and took me out, and then
he held me to the cooking stove to dry
i'll thought | should have been burn
ID up At last he tried to put my eyes