WHAT PUSS HEARD. 



They were sitting before the open fire, in the twilight, telling fairy- 

 Btories. Frank had just brought in an armful of locust- wood and laid 



it upon the hearth. Suddenly puss, who had been sleeping upon the 

 rug, waked, and climbed on the locust-wood and listened. 



" She hears a mouse in the wainscot," they said. " Hush! " All 

 were silent. Presently puss returned to the rug, and made believe 

 go to sleep. But she could have had only a cat-nap before she was 



