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NOBODY'S CAT. 



gone, she jumped into the ash-bin, and sat on the hot ashes to 

 warm her cold toes. Sometimes I would hear a piteous squeal, 

 and then I knew she had burned her poor, cold toes ; but she only 

 jumped on the edge of the bin, and waited a few minutes till the 

 ashes were cool enough to sit on comfortably, and then went back 

 to them. One day I found her playing with a mouse, and after 

 that she caught mice every day, and in this way helped me a great 

 deal, for my fine Master Tommo was too lazy to catch anything, 

 except a bumble-bee when it alighted on his nose. So, after all, 

 Nobody's Cat was useful to Somebody, while Somebody's Cat wa& 

 useful to ISTobody. 



