THE DEAF CAT LEAVES. ,g 



^'''^^'^•" A^^f ^ "^^'^^ ^^ '^^^' l^°^^"g ^t '' P"ssy " warm- 

 ing himsdf before the fire, - 1 think I never saw one I liked 

 more. - Indeed," said I, -if you really think so, I will 

 ^n^.VA' y?u; but he has a fault-he is ^ stone ' deaf." 

 Oh, I don t mind that," said he. He took him away— 

 miles and miles away. I was glad it was so many miles 

 away for two reasons One was I feared he might come 

 back and the other that his voice might come resounding 

 on the s ill night air. But he never came back nor a 

 sound.— A few days after he left "to better himself," a letter 

 came saying, would I wish to have him back.? Thev liked 

 It very much, all but its voice. - No," I wrote, " no, you are 

 very kind, no, thank you ; give him to any one you please- 



nevJr ' ^w.""'^^ ^''K'^^ ^'^""'^^^ ^''^ ^' must not^eturn, 

 never. When next I saw my friend, I asked him how - the 

 beauty was. " You dreadful man ! " said he ; - why that 

 cat nearly drove us all mad-I never heard anything like it." 

 Nor I, said I, sententiously. -Well," said my friend, 



ni/i J' ^^V^'V'^u^' ^"^^ ' ^ ^^^^ g^^^^ it to a very deaf 

 old lady, and so both are happy." - Very, I trust," said I 



The foregoing is by way of advice ; in buying a white 

 cat— or, in fact, any other— ascertain for a ce?ctamty that it 



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