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to this cat; and, as she seemed bent
on coming into his mother’s kitchen,
he thought that he would make a
friend of her in place of his dear
dead kitten.

True, this was a grown-up cat;
and she would not submit to all the
lugging about which his dear kitty
had quite enjoyed.

Still, when puss had got over her
tantrum, and was in a mood to
listen, the little man gave her a great
lecture on the mean, spiteful habit
of scratching, which he told her he
considered ‘ quite *bominable,’ that
he ‘wouldn’t have it,’ and that, if
she persisted, she ‘ shouldn’t come
into their house at all.’