AND HER CAT. ll

so when he saw Dame Mitchell bring home the rescued
puss in her arms, he said to himself, “ Here’s another of
them! as if we had not enough before at home.” He
could not forbear sending one glance of aversion towards
the new comer; but the next moment he checked himself,
and, putting on a feigned admiration, he cried out, “ Oh,
what a fine cat! what a pretty cat! I never saw so fine a
cat before!” And then he fondled him with perfidious
kindness.

“Do you really think so?” said Lady Greenford;
“then he is not so ugly after all?”

* Ugly, indeed! see, what fine eyes he has! But
were he ever so frightful, the favours you bestow upon
him would change him altogether.”

* T did not like him at first.”

“ Those who displease us at first are usually our chief
favourites in the end,” replied Daddy Sharpphiz senten-
tiously.

Then they began to dress the cat, and though he had,