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Title: Ursula at home
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Griffith, Harriet P. Roelofson
Subjects: Children's stories, American
Publisher: Morristown, N.J., Vogt Bros.

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ead you artarticle that I saw in the church paper a few days ago,said Mrs. R )elof, it is called, a true story of a cat, Iwill read it as the writer has written it.; * Children were very different when I was a child/*we hear the grown people say now-a-days—well may-be-so, but I know, in a great many ways, they are justthe same as they were when I was a little girl. I amqliite sure, for one thing, they are just as fond of truestories as I used to be ; and for another thing, I knowthey are just as fond of cats ; so you see I just know,without your telling me, that you will like to hear avery short, true story about a cat. Miss L., the ladyfrom whom I heard it, has a very intelligent cat fora pet. Some people, you know, say cats havent any intelli-gence, or any affection ; that all they know or care foris to keep warm and comfortable, and get plenty toeat. But these people you see have never had pet cats,so they dont know, do they ? Well Miss L., has also a pet canary, and puss has al-
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Sweet were His words, and kind His look. T ~CF5. LENOXTI1 DATIONS Intelligence of Cats. 171 ways taken a great interest in watching her feed thebird, give him his bath, and finally hang the cage onthe hook by the window. Aha, I hear some of these •/ people say, watching for a chance to catch and eat thebird, just wait and see. One day, puss came trotting upto his mistress, in another part of the house, with some-thing in its mouth. Slie supposed it was a mouse, butwhat was her surprise to find it was her dear littlebirdie. Oh ! you naughty puss, she began, but as shetook it from him, expecting t iind it dead, or at leasttorn, and bleeding, to her great surprise she found thebird so carefully and tenderly cared for, that therewasnt even a feather turned. It seems the bottom ofthe cage not being properly fastened had fallen out,bringing birdie down with it, and puss seeing somethingwas wrong, and that the floor was not the place for thebird, had promptly settled the matter, by

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