Domestic Animals 17 



Miss Clare sang a song she knew as a little girl, 

 called "The Old Black Cat," and Teddy recited 

 the old rhyme of the "Three Little Kittens Who 

 Lost Their Mittens." This latter the little folks 

 greatly enjoyed, and Miss Clare illustrated it for 

 them on the blackboard. 



Those blackboard pictures! What delight they 

 took in them, and there was a new one nearly every 

 day: 



Kitty playing with a ball; eating milk out of a 

 saucer; asleep, with "tail and nose together"; 

 running up a tree; stretching after a nap; carrying 

 a kitten by its neck; spitting at a dog; crying over 

 the lost mittens; laughing when they were found 

 and hung up to dry; and watching at a mouse's hole. 



There were some pretty Perry Pictures pinned on 

 a strip of burlap on a small blackboard, and the 

 children tried to draw a great many more to add 

 to the collection. When the month was over, and 

 all the pictures erased, Miss Clare gave a little sigh 

 of satisfaction as she added these notes in a well- 

 worn note-book: 



