Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-02
FOUR KITTENS.

There were once four kittens named 'opsy, F1opsy, Sallylzins and Sue. ,opsy was black, Flopsy was white, ;allykins was yellow and Sue was gray, nd they were all just as good as gold. me morning their mother said to them, am going shopping. You be good ittens and don't go outside the aslet." And she pushed the cover own oyer the basket and left them by lemselves. It was rather dark in lde the basket, for the light only came trough the chinks in the straw, and }, as there was nothing else to do, the ,ur little kittens cuddled up and went tst asleep.
 While they were asleep and as good gold, who should come by but the lrmer's son, who, seeing basket with cover to it thought. How comfort ble that would be for me to take shing with me to bring home my fish l.' So he picked it up and carried off to the woods with him. with the ttens still fast asleep inside. There set it down on sunny bank and agan fishing. Before long he caught speckled t-out, which he took off the ook and threw into the basket.
 Now, if you were a kitten and d~had 9ne to sleep in a peaceful basket as 5ur mother had told you to and some- 1e threw live, cold, Tapping trout in, louldn't you pc scared! We'll, Topsy Id F1opsy and Sallykins and Sue were ,ared, can tell you, and out of the lsISet they jumped, one after another, i'd ran away as fast as they could in i didections. The farmers. son was uch astonished when he found that re basket he had brought with him ,.oage5 to the kittens, and so he ran ter them and tried 70 catch them i'd bring them back home where they longed. The harder he ran the moro ightened the kittens became, and they sampered and lodged and hid behind te tree trunks and among the dried ayes tflt leaves in the shade of great K and scooped out a hollow in them hicll taade a comfortable nest, ir hich they all cuddled down and fell st asleep and dreamed they were al me in their own basket again.
 When the mother cat came home om her shopping and found not only kittens bu. the basket gone, she IS much distressed cat. She could lderstand why the kittens should rur vay but not the basket. and she inn ediately set out to find them. She n all over the barn. calling. Then e ran to the house. but she got nc lsyer there. She went up the road Id down the road without success. Al st she took the path through the pods. and there oh. a sunny bank by side of the trout stream she saw e basket. She ran to it and threw tck the cover, but what was her dis st to find inside instead of four nice irn kittens, half a dozen horrid, cold put. Although she was fond of fish Z a rule; she was not at all glad tc a them this time. However, she re- cted- that if the basket was here the tens could not be far of. and so she [ about exploring the woods with re- wed energy. Before long she came on a black kitten and a white kit and a yellow kitten and a graz ten. fast asleep in pile of dried tves. With 8 joyful nnew she sprans among them, and the kittens opened dr eyes sleepily and wondered where ey were and were glad to see hel ain.. tie-
 Then she led them back through tho ods to where the basket lay. Int Iner's boy. when he saw the cat witf string of kittens after her. under. cd that they were the rightful own Of the packet and so he took the I out and the cat and the foul tens all Jumped in. Then he tiet fish together with a string and car. q them with one hand and took ths Iket in the other, and in this way hs ought them all home again. ThAl Int he gave the cat and the kittens ne of the fish for dinner.