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Excerpt from The Medley, or Stories for Susan: In Prose and Verse
As soon as she had recovered from the fright which the dog gave her, she thoought she would try some oth er similar diversion. Martha had two little spotted kittens that she was very fond of, and was never known to hurt them in any manner or show any cruelty towards them. But she now felt provoked to think that old Towser showed preper resentment, and would not suder her to play her cruel tricks on him.
She now concluded to try tormen ting old puss, and seeing her watch ing a rat that was peeping his head from behind a tub in the pantry; she got a bag and put the two kit tens in it, without old puss seeing her. She then stood up near the fire place, and held up the bag behindher so as to make the kittens mew, and then the old cat' would think they Were somewhere'in distress. Martha thought she would be de lighted to see the old cat manifest so much anxiety and pain to find her little Spotted kits. But she had not drawn the attention of the cat from the rat she was watching, be fore one of the kittens crawled to the top of the bag, and in tryingto Jump to the floor, fell into the fire and w ould have burned to death, had not old Towse1, with that sagacity for which some dogs so remarkable, seized it in his mouth, the instant it touched the coals, and snatched it from the fire.
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