46 WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT.

 

Dick, and she began to use him more
cruelly than ever, and always made game
of him for sending his cat to sea. She
asked him if he thought his cat would
sell for as much money as would buy a
stick to beat him.

At last poor Dick could not bear this
usage any longer, and he thought he
would run away from his place; so he
packed up his few things, and started
very early in the morning, on All-hallows
Day, which is the first of November.
He walked as far as Holloway; and
there sat down on a stone, which to this
day is called Whittington’s stone, and