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sunshine, or we play in the grass, climb the fences, 
play hide-and-seek and roll in our catnip bed. 
In cold weather a window is left open into the 
basement so we can go down to the nice warm 
furnace room, where we have a great big clothes- 
basket lined with a clean soft pad. Mistress knows 
that cats, like other creatures, want a bed long 
enough so they can stretch themselves out full 
length when they feel like it. 
Of course, we sometimes sleep in other places 
beside our basket. For awhile an old cap of Guy’s 
lay on the basement floor, and I used to cuddle up 
in it to take my nap, because it just fitted me. One 
day I was just nicely settled in it when Toddy came 
and lay on top of me, and no sooner had we got 
ourselves nicely fixed for a nap than Budge came 
crawling over both of us, trying to get on top of 
Toddy. But Toddy’s body was too round and his 
coat too smooth and slippery for Budge to get a 
good hold, and after sliding off several times he 
finally went and took his nap in an old sprinkling 
can. 
After supper we have the greatest frolic of the 
day in the library. In his kittenhood Toddy was a 
great athlete, and whenever a certain chair with a 
