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Updated: June 26, 2025
Gay said, looking at the plump, silver-gray creature Furry-Purry carefully deposited on the piazza-floor. 'Bless me! I believe it is that rascal of a mole that's gnawed my hyacinth and tulip bulbs. I offered the gardener's boy two dollars if he would catch the villain. To whom does that cat belong, Winnie? She's worth her weight in gold.
"'If you please, said Furry-Purry, for it was she, 'I have made bold to come out and meet you to ask your advice. I am a poor little barn-cat, and I was contented with my lot till I saw you yesterday in your beautiful home; but now I feel that I was intended for a higher sphere. Tell me oh, tell me, Mrs. Velvetpaw, how I may become a house-cat! "'Well, did I ever! said Mrs. Velvetpaw.
"Just then a gust of wind closed the door, and Furry-Purry ran round the house to the barn and remained all day hidden in her hole under the boards. "That night there was a storm, and several cats in the neighborhood crept into the barn for safety. There was old Mrs.
You shall lie on Cæsar's silk cushion; and because you are yellow, and papa says you are worth your weight in gold, your name shall be Gold Elsie, "So Furry-Purry became a family cat. "The first time she met Mrs. Velvetpaw after this change in her life, that excellent tabby looked at her with evident admiration.
"You can imagine how faithfully Furry-Purry followed these directions how with her sharp tongue she smoothed and stroked every hair of her pretty coat, and washed her face again and again with her wet paws. "'You are wretchedly thin! Mrs. Tabitha said at their next meeting. 'That fault can only be remedied by a generous diet. You must look me full in the face when I talk to you.
'The idea! and she moved a step or two away from poor Furry-Purry, her manner, as well as her words, expressing astonishment and disdain. "'I know it seems presuming, Mrs. Velvetpaw, but' "'Presuming! I should say so. "'I have heard my mother say "a cat may look at a king," said Furry-Purry. "'Go away, you low-born creature! How dare you quote your mother to me? Go away, this instant!
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