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Pussy Meow 
became worn very short, because I had such hard 
work to squeeze through. You see I grew bigger 
every day, and the hole didn’t. 
One day our little tormentor tied a string around 
Toddy’s neck, fastened it to his velocipede, and 
then rode up and down the sidewalk, as fast as he 
could. And there is no telling how long he would 
have kept it up if a kind neighbor across the street 
had not come over and taken Toddy away from 
him. 
When mistress came home that evening, they 
told her about Eddie’s cruelty, and as she had 
warned him already many times to let her kittens 
alone, she said she would report the case to the 
“ Humane Agent.” 
I never learned what the gentleman did, but from 
that day Eddie did not trouble us for a long time, 
and we think that next to mistress and the boy, the 
Humane Agent is our best friend. 
But alas for poor Budge and Toddy ! A few 
moons after I came to my new home Toddy disap- 
peared, and we all felt very badly about it. The 
next day Budge went away, I suppose to look for 
Toddy, and he never came back. Then for several 
days mistress and the boy had such sad faces that 
