98 BRUNO 



CHAPTER XV 



ALL that season we lived in a rented cot- 

 tage, but before the next summer came 

 we were planting roses in our own grounds. 

 We had been renting just about a year, when 

 we bought our little home in one of the suburbs ; 

 so we could fully appreciate the joys of being 

 on our own place again. 



We found a kitten, the " very moral ' of 

 Rebecca, striped black and blue-gray. She was 

 a dear little thing, and she and Bruno soon 

 became fast friends. 



The only creature we ever knew him to bite 

 except, indeed, wild animals, which he con- 

 sidered fair game was in defending Catsie. 



His victim was a handsome coach-dog, fol- 

 lowing some friends who one day drove out to 

 call on us. He was a thoroughbred dog, but 

 he had not Bruno's gentlemanly instincts. 

 The first thing he did was to go trotting 

 around to the back porch, where he spied Catsie 

 enjoying a fine meaty bone. He sneaked up 



