CHAPTER III.

DISCLOSING THE GOOD FEELINGS OF DAME MITCHELL AND THE
WICKEDNESS OF DADDY SHARPPHIZ.

DAME MITCHELL,
agreeably to the trust
confided to her, treated
Mowmouth with a
truly motherly kind-
ness: she took so much

SSS care of him, and fed
him so well, that he grew to be one of the finest cats in the
fashionable neighbourhood of Chelsea, which abounded, how-
ever, in cats of high degree. She was always watching
over him: she helped bim to the best dishes, and put him
to sleep on the softest down. Lest he might chance to be
one day taken ill, she resolved to study those complaints to
which cats are subject, and borrowed several books which

 

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