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your mother say if we came home with a whole 

 family of kittens ? You'll be fortunate if she'll al- 

 low you to keep that one. Besides, the other is 

 an ugly, dirty-looking thing." 



Then he climbed into the buggy and they drove 

 away, taking my little sister with them. 



Now I was quite alone in the world. For a lit- 

 tle while I lost heart. Why should I go on or 

 struggle any more ? Why not lie down there 

 among the grasses and quietly wait for death to 

 come? 



But soon I shook off this sadness and mad© up 

 my mind that the first thing to be done was to go 

 into the fields and try to find something that I 

 could eat, for I was growing faint with hunger. 



It was at this time, while hunting about the fields, 

 that I got caught in the rabbit trap and was lamed 

 for life. 



To take up my story from there ; 



After I had climbed down from the tree as best 

 I could with my sore paw, I went across the fields 

 and back to the road. 



I caught one or two crickets and a grasshopper 

 on the way, and these served to ease my hunger. 



On I went, limping slowly, and just as the dusk 



