FISHERMAN PUSSY. 



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The next day 

 she was hungry 



ao'aiii. 



membered 

 the fish, and 

 ran down to 

 the beach. 



This time 

 was something* 



long and black mov- 

 ing abont, close to the shore. 

 Minnikin forgot that she didn't like to wet 

 her paws. She jumped right into the water, 

 and brought to land a real live eel. 

 Pussy must have thought, " !N^ow I'll treat cook better than she 

 did me;" for she seized the squirming, wriggling creature with her 

 teeth, and carried it home, into the kitchen, and laid it at cook's 

 feet. Cook thought it was a snake. How she did scream I 



