BABY AND THE KITTEN. 



HAVE a charming pair of 

 friends, a married couple, 

 whom I knew previous to 

 their marriage. They are 

 exceedingly happy, and ap- 

 parently inhabit but one 

 world, and that is their 

 home. They were the 

 proud possessors of a beau- 

 tiful child ; and when I say 

 beautiful, I mean all that the word implies. Even 

 I, a bachelor, could see and in a manner appreciate 

 this wondrous beauty. And how. my friends dis- 

 coursed about that child, and tried to interest me in 

 him ! and, really, I was quite impressed by their 

 arguments, and even more so by the child itself. 



When the baby was about a year old the nurse 

 one day gave it a little white kitten to play with. 

 This kitten was one of a number which had been 

 reared in the house, and had just arrived at the kit- 



