50 The Tumble.

 

white kittens. Such pretty things
they were, and almost exactly alike !
Indeed, a stranger would not have
seen any difference between them,
I am sure.

But Johnny knew them apart,
quite well; for one of them was
promised to him as soon as it was
old enough to leave its mother ; and
that one had some little brown marks
over one eye, and on the tip of its
tail.

So, letting go of May’s hand and
of the umbrella too, off ran the little
laddie, calling out, ‘ Poof, poof,
poof, which meant pussie, you see,
only he could not pronounce his
letter s, and so could not say it right.