Transcriber's Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

PUSSY BLACK-FACE
or: the Story of a Kitten and Her Friends

A Book for Boys and Girls

By Marshall Saunders

Author of “Beautiful Joe,” “Beautiful Joe's Paradise,” “'Tilda Jane,” etc.

Illustrated by

DIANTHA HORNE MARLOWE

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”

Montaigne.

Boston ❧ L. C. Page &

Company ❧ Mdccccxiii

Copyright, 1913, by

L. C. Page & Company

(INCORPORATED)

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

All rights reserved

First Impression, May, 1913

Second Impression, June, 1913

THE COLONIAL PRESS

C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

I DEDICATE THIS STORY OF A LITTLE CAT TO THAT WHOLEHEARTED

FRIEND OF ANIMALS—MRS. HUNTINGTON-SMITH

Of THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE,

51 CARVER STREET, BOSTON