IX 
A HAPPY HOME 
Every morning after breakfast mistress reads in 
a book called the “ Bible,” and when she closes it, 
they both kneel down in the bay window while she 
talks to the chair. Sometimes when the sun shines 
so nice and warm upon her back, I just jump up 
there and have a nice purr, which always makes 
Guy laugh. 
Some of the stories they have read in the Bible 
were about men and women and children and goats 
and sheep and cattle. I have listened breathlessly 
many times for something about cats, but so far 
not one has been mentioned. But perhaps those 
things all happened before there were any cats. 
One time the story was about an old man who 
died leaving six daughters 1 and they were afraid 
that because they had no big brothers they would 
not get their share. So they went to Moses, their 
captain, and asked him about it, and he said that 
1 Vid. Numbers xxvii. 1-8. 
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