Puppies and kittens, and other stories - Carine Cadby

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]
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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