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| dite fee creature very ten-
derly, feeding it with warm ae
and making a nice bed for it by the
kitchen fire.

Still, it had a cough, and grew
weak and thin, and did not care to
play as merrily as it used to do.

Our little laddie became quite
anxious about his baby cat, and
would nurse and watch it by the
hour together.

By degrees it got better, and more
like itself, and they were all growing
happier, when what should happen
but that a strange dog, something like
one that once attacked Johnny him-
self, should fly at the poor pussy when
nobody was by to take care of it, and