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    Pussy and Doggy Tales
    Pussy and Doggy Tales
    Pussy and Doggy Tales
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    Pussy and Doggy Tales

    By E. (Edith) Nesbit and Lucy Kemp-Welch

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
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      Pussy and Doggy Tales - E. (Edith) Nesbit

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pussy and Doggy Tales, by Edith Nesbit

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      Title: Pussy and Doggy Tales

      Author: Edith Nesbit

      Illustrator: L. Kemp-Welch

      Release Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #27190]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUSSY AND DOGGY TALES ***

      Produced by Suzanne Lybarger and Emmy.

      Pussy and Doggy Tales

      I may have no nose, old man, but I smell rats.

      Pussy

      and Doggy

      Tales

      By

      E. Nesbit

      With

      Illustrations

      by

      L. Kemp-Welch

      London

      J. M. Dent & Co.

      Aldine House

      29 & 30 Bedford Street

      1899         W.C.

      Printed by

      Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

      At the Ballantyne Press

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      Pussy Tales

      Too Clever by Half

      TELL us a story, mother, said the youngest kitten but three.

      You've heard all my stories, said the mother cat, sleepily turning over in the hay.

      Then make a new one, said the youngest kitten, so pertly that Mrs. Buff boxed her ears at once—but she laughed too. Did you ever hear a cat laugh? People say that cats often have occasion to do it.

      I do know one story, she said; but I'm not sure that it's true, though it was told me by a most respectable brindled gentleman, a great friend of my dear mother's. He said he was a second cousin twenty-nine times removed of Mrs. Tabby White, the lady the story is about.

      Oh, do tell it, said all the kittens, sitting up very straight and looking at their mother with green anxious eyes.

      Very well, she said kindly; only if you interrupt I shall leave off.

      So there was silence in the barn, except for Mrs. Buff's voice and the soft sound of pleased purring which the kittens made as they listened to the enchanting tale.

      "Mrs. Tabby White seems to have been as clever a cat as ever went rat-catching in a pair of soft-soled shoes. She always knew just where a mouse would peep out of the wainscot, and she had her soft-sharp paw on him before he had time to know that he was not alone in the room. She knew how to catch nice breakfasts for herself and her children, a trick I will teach you, my dears, when the spring comes; she used to lie quite quietly among the ivy on the wall, and then take the baby birds out of the nest when the grown-up birds had gone to the grub-shop. Mrs. Tabby White was very clever, as I said—so clever that presently she was not satisfied with being at the very top of the cat profession.

      "'Cat-people have more sense than human people, of course,' she said to herself; 'but still there are some things one might learn from them. I must watch and see how they do things.'

      "So next morning when the cook gave Mrs. Tabby White her breakfast, she noticed that cook poured the milk out of a jug into a saucer. That afternoon Tabby felt thirsty, but instead of putting her head into the jug and drinking in the usual way,—you know—she tilted up the jug to pour the milk out as she had seen the cook do. But cats' paws, though they are so strong to catch

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