Budge and Toddy 
he hoped I would stay, and that he and Budge 
would do all they could to make it pleasant for me. 
They both begged me to forgive them for their 
spiteful conduct in the early morning ; from that 
time on they acted very kindly toward me, and I 
was permitted to join them in their play. 
I soon found that they had many cozy corners 
all around the yard, as well as in the house, and 
one of our favorite places was under the porch, 
where we used to go for safety. You may wonder 
what I mean by “ safety,” when we have such a 
kind mistress and such a good home. I will 
tell you. 
Mistress and the boy are away all day, and very 
often during those days when we were small, help- 
less kittens, a certain little boy would come into our 
yard and annoy us. He had no one to play with, 
and I suppose he wanted to play with us, but he 
didn’t know how. How I did wish that the “ bus ” 
would come and take him to the kindergarten. 
Whenever he came in, if we saw him in time, we 
would run as fast as we could and crawl in between 
the latticework under the porch, and hide in there 
till he had gone. 
As time went by the fur on my back and sides 
