Published, January, 1922
Original Title: Killingerne: en Familiekrenike
Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
“The other farm cats’ kittens were born in barn and loft and were drowned litter after litter—but she would see that her kittens grew to be cats!”
CONTENTS
Foreword by Carl Van Vechten, [13]
CHAPTER ONE
Grey Puss, [21]
The Willow Stumps, [23]
The Kittens, [25]
Grey Puss and her Past, [28]
CHAPTER TWO
The Blind See, [35]
The Father, [38]
The Piebald Devil, [44]
The Rescue of Tiny, [50]
The Flight from the Willow, [55]
CHAPTER THREE
The Burial-mound, [57]
Life in the Burial-mound, [61]
The First Mouse, [64]
The Thief, [67]
Drown the Brute, [71]
A Great Reception, [76]
CHAPTER FOUR
The Trickster, [81]
The Lid of the Well, [88]
The Dragon-fly, [95]
The Old Crow, [97]
CHAPTER FIVE
Big-kitten, [100]
The Conqueror, [104]
Black-kitten, [108]
Miauw-miauw, [111]
Grey-kitten, [116]
CHAPTER SIX
White-kitten, [122]
Tiny, [124]
Red-kitten, [128]
The Great Eating-house, [134]
CHAPTER SEVEN
Box, [139]
Cats of All Colours, [142]
The Life-saving Chair, [148]
The Crow Again, [152]
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Kittens go out Hunting, [158]
The Attack on the Crow’s Nest, [163]
CHAPTER NINE
The Canary, [174]
Box and the Red Communist, [177]
The Smoke-dog, [181]
CHAPTER TEN
The Best Cat, [186]
“Madness” and the Owl, [190]
The Hanger-on, [193]
Grey on the Warpath, [196]
The Thief-cat, [199]
White-kitten and the Calf, [201]
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Kittens Hunt by Night, [205]
The Death of Box, [208]
Home-sickness, [211]
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Demon Mouser, [213]
Exit Red, [217]
Big-kitten turns Wild Cat, [220]
The Home of the Fisherman, [223]
Black Joins the Army, [229]
“Terror” turns House-cat, [236]
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Grey Puss’ Future, [242]
KITTENS
