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the body and buried it by the side of Beauty, 
marking the spot with a stake on which he wrote : 
“ Sacred to the Memory of the Unknown Dead,” 
and mistress planted some heliotrope upon it. 
Meanwhile one of our neighbors was sitting on 
her kitchen porch in full view of the whole pro- 
ceeding, and I expected every minute that she 
would say something sarcastic about a “ cat fu- 
neral ” or a “ cat hospital,” as she had done before. 
She was busily plying the needle on her beautiful 
fancy work. As soon as mistress had finished 
planting the flowers, the lady came to the fence and 
said : 
“ I should think you would have your cats wear 
black ribbons when they are attending a funeral;” 
and without waiting for a reply, she held up her 
fancy work and asked mistress how she liked it. It 
was a doily stamped with a group of kittens play- 
ing ring-around the rosies, and several of the fig- 
ures had already been worked in beautiful colored 
silk. 
“ It must be pleasant, no doubt,” said mistress, 
“ to work beautiful figures of happy creatures upon 
canvas ; but I prefer to give joy and happiness to 
