The Two Rats in the Sun.
“Then something dreadful happened. I was chased by boys. They were dreadful boys. They hurt me. They made me tremble. They did things too cruel to mention.
“They set a dog on me. I could hardly move, I trembled so. I crept under a rail and the dog stayed there, barking. I thought he would seize me, but before he did it a boy came and took me and treated me kindly, and carried me in his arms to his own home and took care of me.
“Oh how I did love that boy! I wanted to stay with him all the time.
“Every day when he went to school he let me go with him as far as the bridge.
“Then I would look up in his face and mew, ‘Mayn’t I go further?’
The Boy That Treated Me Kindly.
He Nibbles the Pink.