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Title: True stories about dogs & cats
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1787-1860
Subjects: Dogs Cats
Publisher: Boston, Nichols & Hall

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d related to me that they had a cat inher fathers family who was a great favorite,and who was particularly fond of the baby;that one day this child was very fretful, andsat for a long time on the floor crying, andthat nothing would pacify her. 06 TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. The cat was by her side on the floor, andiinding herself not noticed, and perhaps weariedat the noise, she suddenly stood up on herhind legs and boxed the childs ears in exactlythe same way in which she was in the habitof boxing her kittens. It seems that this cat was not so amiable asthe other, and did not object to giving a boxon the ear to a naughty child. I have another story from a good authoritywhich is still more in favor of poor pussy, andputs her upon a par with the most faithfuldog. During a hard snow storm last winter, akitten with a broken leg and almost frozenhopped into the hall door of a gentlemanshouse in Brooklyn, New York, and set up amost piteous mewing. TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. 39
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The master of the house ordered the servantsto throw the kitten into the street, when hislittle daughter, a child eight years of age,caught up the poor little crsature. and begged 40 TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. to be allowed to keep and nurse it. The fa-ther, at first, refused. The child, however,begged so earnestly that he at last allowed herto keep the kitten. The little girl, whom we will call Emma,nursed her pet until it got quite well. Thekitten returned, in full measure, all the love ofher gentle nurse, and was never quite happyaway from little Emma. Some time afterwards, the loving child wastaken severely ill, and was confined to her bed.Kitty had grown into a cat. It was found im-possible to keep her away from the bed of hersuffering friend. The cat would watch at thedoor when turned out of the room, dart inagain, and mew, and jump upon the bed wherelittle Emma lay. There Kitty was quiet. As the child grew more ill, it was impossible TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. 41

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