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Identifier: cat00hunt (find matches)
Title: The cat
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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me that it wasalways the same way with her. Cats should lookbefore they climb. I scratched Auntie Mays nose terribly for heras I came down, and it bled and had to be bathed.She was most kind about it. Never mind, darling, it wont matter. I aman ugly thing anyway, and I have only got to be 5 66 THE CAT presented at Court to-morrow! Just a little un-important occasion of that kind. Cant you explain to the Queen, said Rosamond, that your cat scratched you ? I have alwaysheard she is so very kind. No, I shant worry her with explanations, saidAuntie May; only soldiers scratches are worthtalking about. Let us go in. Mother lectured me when she heard of myadventure. You should not have run, she said,* with that great heavy lead and all. If he had hadthe spirit of a flea he would have broken your backfor you. You should not have shown it him ; youshould have stopped still and gone for his nose.That hurts, and he knows it. He would have runaway from you the moment you raised your paw.Kemember!
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CHAPTER VI THE FIRST JOURNEY At the end of July Rosamond was taken homeby somebody who was traveUmg up to Yorkshire.Her mother was not very well and wanted her.In fact, for the whole of August Auntie Maywas always worrying about Beatrice, Rosamondsmother, who was her twin-sister. She said shecouldnt quite make out from Beatrices letterswhat was the matter with her, or if it was seriousor no, and though she paid several visits to bigcountry houses in August she did not enjoy them.We were left to the care of Mary, who was becom-ing a very excellent cats-maid, and so mother toldAuntie May whenever she came home, and that,although she never could love Mary as much asshe loved Auntie May, she had not wanted foranything during her absence. At last Beatrices letters got so scanty and 67 68 THE CAT muddly that Auntie May said she must go and seeher and find out for herself. So she telegraphedto Tom, her brother-in-law, that she was goingdown to Crook Hall on Thursday, whether theywanted her o

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