The National tribune., 1880-12-01
The Strange Kitten.

One pleasant summer day, when was little GIRL I
went to spend the afternoon with another little girl named
Charlotte Berry wore new shoes and new delane
Dress and hair braided in two brads behind and
tied up with brown satin ribbons.
Charlotte lived around another street. and her house
had very large yard with plenty OF green grass TO play
on and trees to rest under. There was wall on two
sides of the yard and when climbed to leok over
could the blue waters of the cove and the fishing
boats There blue bells and lilies of the valley
growing in the grass and swing under of the trees
and many other why liked to to play with
Charlotte.
She was a good-natlred girl with rosy cheeks blue
eyes and red hair Her sister, Annie who younger,
had dark eyes and dark hair and her brother Johna had
red hair and very freceed face Then there their
and whe cap.
That afternoon after Charlotte and had played lit
tie while with the dishes and dos out into che
yard, and presently roamed around by the back door,
where suddenly spied little kitten gnawng at fish
bone which one had thrown out on the ground
ooh what little darlingr' exclaimed and then we
both began calling very SOFTLY Kitty hoping we could
catch it.
'Just at that time Joshua Berry around the cor
of the house. He teasing kind of boy, and
when he trying to catch the kitten he ran up ex
/. claiming:
ssWhat mean old kitten I'll throw q stone at il"
/ so Josh, don't, don't !" we begged but he did Ee
threw stone at the poor kitten who sprang desperately
/ over the wall and disappeared.
s.You re bad boy p / said, crying "We pontsdthat
kitty T.
nte the house, and found the good kind aunt sitting
in her rocking-char mendng We told her all our woes
and she said
ssJoshua is a naughty boy to tease little girls TN
send him off errand that wkeep him out Of your
way
So she called him, and gave him errand which would
take him half mile away, and keep him waiting there
too He didn't want TO but he had to- SO he walked
slowly off looking back over his shoulder as he went
Then Charlotte and ran again to the back door and
called Kitty kitty I" very gently for along time.
At last the little thing tmidy on the wall and
approaching it gradually and softly, first stroked
it's back, and then took it down into Oh how
thin and light it was, and it purred in ptful, eager
We carried il into the house and showed it.
sOh dear me, Charlotte" said Mrs. Berry "We cant
have that forlorn kitten around here You had better
put il right over the WALL and let it go home"
'Oh let me haveitn ~ exclaimed Il want it for Hss
kitteu.'
.sWin your mother let you keep it I" asked Mrs.
Berry.
"0h yes, I know she will said.
SWELL them said Aunt Barbara SIN shut the poor
little thing up In my room so it can't run away and
when you so home you take it along
So she carried it up her room, and Charlotte and
ran play again. 1t did not seem long hefore we
were called in to supper remember just what we had
hot biscuit and honey and little sweet cakes fun OF
seeds
After supper said must go home, Aunt Barbara
brought down the little kitten, which she had found
asleep her bed and while l put on my things, she
gave it OF milk. Then took It in my apron
and ran home to show it to my mother
why Mary /" said mother, when / held it up before
her. 1--WE don't want q kitten like that. we have
good cat already you know
.Oh mother tits SO NICE do let keep it" begged
And she did let me.
% stranger, but it grew fat and pretty and playful
= changed its Beauty Then Tor while called
it Tiger y but that whenit had grown up to DO
g quite cat 1t was while its Beauty that
70 day off lock OF it's black and white hair, and
did it up in piece Of tssuepaper g remener my PEI :
is now TO this day. waiting for my little girl to be big
enough for her own, burean, cats harand ALL
= Whenever tell her this story she always jumps up at
s. this point and exclaims Mo hig enough
y mamma.