Contents

Pussy Tales
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Too Clever by Half[3]
The White Persian[16]
A Powerful Friend[26]
A Silly Question[40]
The Selfish Pussy[47]
Meddlesome Pussy[54]
Nine Lives[62]

Doggy Tales
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Tinker[79]
Rats![95]
The Tables Turned[100]
A Noble Dog[108]
The Dyer's Dog[114]
The Vain Setter[123]

List of Illustrations

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"I may have no nose, old man, but I smell rats"[Frontispiece]
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Nurse dried the poor, dear, cruelly-used kittens a little[11]
She was very beautiful[17]
I who superintended the writing of his letters[23]
So much better to go to sleep in front of it[27]
Now the back of a cow is the last place where you would look for a cat[33]
"I don't believe a word of it"[43]
I was picked up in the street by a child[49]
The dog saw me off[53]
Seeing the tea set out, I got on the table[59]
Sitting up, and beginning to wash the kitten's face very hard indeed[73]
The man's arm dragged through the window-pane, and Tinker hanging on to his fingers[89]
It was a magnificent fight[106]
He pulled her out some ten yards down the stream[111]
Sat in the sun on the dyer's doorstep[119]
I took the first prize[127]

Pussy Tales