The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-05
A Little Kitten. Puzzle.

Grandma was sorry she ever thought
Of giving the black kitten to Janey
and Carolyn when she learned that
they quarreied about its name Janey
wished TO name the kitten Midnight
because It was so black. and because
II was so black Carolyn insisted upon
called IL .Jetty.' The only fact about
that kitten upon which the little sis
tiers agreed was its color. II was un-
questlonably black.
Janey wished the kitten to be fed
nothing but milk, and begged to keep
it's bed in the kitchen. Carolyn tried
to teach the kitten to eat everything.
even oranges; she was glad mother
said II must sleep in the woodshed.
II tfttf seenn as II ths ftttfs hfHcK kitten
made more trouble In the family than
anything that had ever happened
even measles. Mother threatened to
send the pretty creature back to the
farm~to live with its mother cat and
grandma and grandpa.
While mother. father. grandma and
grandpa were feeling 30 bad because
Jansy ana Carolyn auarreied about
their pet. no one stopped to think that
the kitten was much troubled himself.
You see. he didn't know whether he
was Midnight or Jetty. Sometimes
he thought he was Midnight. and liked
nothing but milk to drink; again he
was sure he was Jetty, who preferred
bits OF beefsteak for dinner, II was
extremely puzxitng-
One day something happened that
never had happened before.
Said Janey: TITS name il Midnight,
| tell YOU
Said Carolyn; And / tell you It's
name 10 Jetty."
The kitten had listened to his many
tinAs before but when IanerZ made
a face at Carolyn and Carolyn that
very minute made face at Janey the
kitten ied.
One day passed, two days passed.
and the kitten failed to return. Jansy
waited with fresh saucers of milk.
Carolyn waited with a feast spread
on the woodshed steps.
Al last fancy cried. Il arm afraid
something has happened to our dear
kitten. she said. "Oh. II 1t will only
come back We will call II 'Jetty's''
Don't speak OF it, answered Car
olyn. III the sweet thing ever comes
back shall be too glad to cali 1t
Midnight l am afraid It has been
killed by dogs"
'Or run over by an automobile"
walled Janey.
And il is all our own fault per-
sisted Carolyn. IF we had even said,
Come back. kitty. kitty. kitty that
day. believe IT would have stayed
at home"
..Instead OF doing that" moaned
Jancy,. 81 called. Come. Midnight. Mid
night. Midnight and II mewed and ran
fast"
eyes. added Carolyn. ''and when
called Come. lefty Jetty- Jetty IT
.ynewed and raj, faster than ever.
believe that kitten knew more'n we
supposed.
aoh, often saw the little thing
wash III face and think at the same
time" admitted Janey,
One moonlight evening, when Janey
and Carolyn were sitting on the front
stems, with their arms around each
other, who should come walking up the
garden path but one black kitten fol-
lowed by a second black kitten? Mid
night and Jetty had come home. but
which ID which neither fancy nor Car
oiyn knows to this day. All they do
know Ii that grandma's kitten from
the country came home with Z twin
- exactly like himself that even grand
ma can't ten which one II the farm
Ths kitten himself knows which one
he H.. because once In q grsas while
when JAhey and Carolyn talk over the
past and agree newer to uuarre, over
Anything again enc kitten, winks at
the little gtris. Before JAney and Car
lelxu ~ Axde fl,6tr Aus1glsA the ktssn