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"Oh, was that all?" said Prue, "I thought 'twas something great," and her look of disgust at finding the conversation to be upon so ordinary a topic made both Randy and Jotham laugh heartily. "Well I don't see why you laugh," said Prue, "'twon't be funny to be going down to the store this hot afternoon. I'd rather stay at home with my Tabby cat, and fan her to keep her cool."
At the same time he whispered me in the Ear to take notice of a Tabby Cat that sat in the Chimney-Corner, which, as the old Knight told me, lay under as bad a Report as Moll White her self; for besides that Moll is said often to accompany her in the same Shape, the Cat is reported to have spoken twice or thrice in her Life, and to have played several Pranks above the Capacity of an ordinary Cat.
"'Yes. He has it in the next room now. Can you not see how it disappeared, Harold? Why, the cat swallowed it! "'Do you mean to say that the white tabby swallowed the Crimson Diamond? "'By mistake.
"Is it not terrible to think that any human creature should be without the comforts of a home which even our tabby possesses. It ought to make you thankful that you are so well cared for, Tab." The cat opened her eyes and winked drowsily at her mistress. "So you brought the poor boy home, Hugh?" "Yes, Hester, I thought we ought not to begrudge a meal to one less favored by fortune than ourselves.
At the other end of the passageway, up in the living-room of the cottage, the draught had carried large quantities of the smoke. Elaine, Aunt Tabby and Joshua coughing and choking, saw it, and opened a window, which seemed to cause a current of air to sweep through the whole length of the passageway and helped to clear away the fumes rapidly.
"I was not afraid; only it gives one such a turn!" replied Joe, with chattering teeth. "Then direct me to a dressing-room," ordered the stranger. "But are you a gentleman's skeleton, or a lady's?" gasped Joe. "I am neither. I am Death," curtly replied the stranger. "Lord save us!" ejaculated Miss Tabby. "Are you going to direct me to a dressing-room?"
"Hold your tongue, you silly old Tabby!" cried Peter in great wrath. "They were as good golden guineas as ever bore the effigies of the king of England. It seems as if I could recollect the whole circumstance, and how I, or old Peter, or whoever it was, thrust in my hand, or his hand, and drew it out all of a blaze with gold. Old rags, indeed!"
Perhaps the boy in the tree guessed her thoughts, for once more he lowered his feet and kicked viciously at her as he chanted: "Tabby Catt, Tabby Catt, Drink some milk and make you fat, Skinny, scrawny Tabby Catt." The faded calico bonnet caught on his toes and he tossed it high in the air, letting it fall far out in the dust of the road.
If this particular cat had been black instead of tabby I should have regarded her advent as a prognostic, for it is conceded by all scientists that there is a mysteriously subtle virtue in a black cat.
"December 21st, 1839 "We are at present, and have been during the last month, rather busy, as, for that space of time, we have been without a servant, except a little girl to run errands. Poor Tabby became so lame that she was at length obliged to leave us. She is residing with her sister, in a little house of her own, which she bought with her savings a year or two since.
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