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PUPPIES AND KITTENS

THE DOLLS’ DAY

By CARINE CADBY

With 29 Illustrations by WILL CADBY

Daily Graphic.—“Wonderland through the camera. Mrs. Carine Cadby has had the charming idea of telling in ‘The Dolls’ Day’ exactly what a little girl who was very fond of dolls dreamed that her dolls did when they had a day off. Belinda the golden-haired, and Charles the chubby, and their baby doll disappeared from their cradles while their protectress Stella was dozing. They roamed through woods and pastures new; they nearly came to disaster with a strange cat; they found a friendly Brother Rabbit and a squirrel which showed them the way home. In short, they wandered through a child’s homely fairyland and came back safely to be put to bed at night. It is a pretty phantasy, but it is given an unexpected air of reality by the very clever photographs with which Mr. Will Cadby points the moral and adorns the tale.”

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

Salome.

PUPPIES AND
KITTENS

And Other Stories

BY
CARINE CADBY

Illustrated with 39 Photographs by
WILL CADBY

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE

Printed in the United States of America

CHAPTER		PAGE
[TWO PUPPIES]
I.	Tim	[1]
II.	The Puppies	[6]
III.	Timette and Ann	[13]
IV.	Dogs and their Sense of Smell	[20]
V.	The Adventure	[29]
VI.	The Lost Puppies	[36]
VII.	The Search Party	[40]
VIII.	Timette and Ann Fall Out	[46]
IX.	Training Dogs	[52]
X.	The Poet Dog	[54]
[SPIDERS AND THEIR WEBS]
I.	Emma	[63]
II.	Emma’s Web	[66]
III.	A Narrow Escape	[74]
IV.	About Webs	[77]
V.	The Little House-Spider	[83]
VI.	Baby Spiders	[89]
[WHAT THE CHICKENS DID]
I.	Joan and the Canaries	[99]
II.	The Worm	[106]
III.	Joan Saves a Chicken’s Life	[116]
IV.	Thirsty Chickens	[123]
V.	The Fight	[126]
VI.	Fluffy’s Recovery	[133]
VII.	Hatching Out	[136]
[THE PERSIAN KITTENS AND THEIR FRIENDS]
I.	Tompkins and Minette	[145]
II.	Two Thieves	[152]
III.	Minette Finds the Kitchen	[156]
IV.	The Kitchen Kittens	[161]
V.	A Surprising Conversation	[167]
VI.	The Return Visit	[175]
VII.	The Visitors’ Tea	[181]
VIII.	Salome to the Rescue	[186]
IX.	Misjudged Kittens	[189]
X.	Salome Gives a Lecture	[196]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Salome	[Frontispiece]
	PAGE
He would lean over the back of a chair	[3]
The Puppies	[7]
They slept and slept	[11]
Timette and Ann	[15]
“Here you see us with Papa”	[21]
“All the happy livelong day We eat and sleep and laze and play”	[27]
“Except when only one bone’s there And Sis takes care that I shan’t share”	[31]
“What a pity you should be Such a greedy little she”	[37]
“This they say is not quite right, But who can keep still in the midst of a fight?”	[43]
“We’re good dogs now and once more friends,” And so my doggy story ends	[49]
She looked so wise and grave	[55]
The spider in the web	[62]
A beautiful regular pattern	[67]
A fly struggling in the web	[71]
A beautiful web	[79]
A snare	[85]
Spiders love fine weather	[91]
When anything alarming comes along they will all rush back to Mother Hen	[101]
A little tapping sound	[103]
Dolly found a worm	[107]
Cheeky dashing off with the prize	[109]
Made them take some grain out of her hand	[113]
It is very funny to see chickens drink	[121]
They began to fight	[127]
He fell over and lay quite still as if he were dead	[131]
One had still a bit of shell sticking to his back	[139]
Salome	[144]
The two kittens arched their backs	[147]
Two little heads very busy with the saucer	[153]
Tibby was much too busy to take any notice of a little kitten	[157]
They had got hold of the waste-paper basket	[163]
Tried to take a photograph	[171]
A perfect bunch of bad temper	[173]
“Hunt the thimble”	[177]
She pushed the jug over with her paw	[183]
Pussy pretended to be her daughter	[191]
“You may look little angels, but you are nothing but little imps of mischief”	[193]
Sauntered grandly out of the room	[197]

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS