In fact, with her system of going to work, such things were sure to happen; no need, therefore, to take them too seriously!
A few evenings later she is sitting again at the edge of the cornfield, and as nobody comes out and no dog chases her away, it is obvious that she is meant to gain admittance!
She creeps along the garden fence and sneaks calmly past the stall to the manure-heap, where she spends the whole night in undisturbed peace ransacking “the big food bag.”
She came back night after night; and became more and more daring....
One morning early, the housewife coming suddenly into the larder, discovered a strange cat sitting on one of the shelves, eating. She grabbed the broom and lunged out after the brute, but in her excitement aimed so badly that she transformed a large bowl of cream into a cataract!
Now the farmer’s wife became really angry! If that red devil stole cream, she’d soon begin taking puddings and meat....
She hit about her wildly and futilely.... While Red escaped by the grating through which she had come.
“Was it a cat?”
The good woman became suddenly doubtful when she had cooled down. Nobody round about owned such a cat, as far as she knew....