iqo Pussy Meow 
taken with her to the new house from three to 
seven cats, and each time it has been to a finer and 
bigger house than she had before. And now we 
even have a housekeeper. I should think it is 
more likely to be the other way : bad luck comes 
to people who cruelly desert helpless and depend- 
ent creatures and leave them unprovided for. 
On the other hand, the notion prevails among 
some people, as I have heard, that it is good luck 
to have a cat follow you. Of course, it may be 
presuming too much for a cat to give her opinion 
so freely ; but it seems to me that this good luck 
will only come to people who will take a kind in- 
terest in a poor stray, and who will try to find out 
where she belongs, or else procure another home 
for her. 
Our new house was on Elmwood Place, and we 
found to our great delight that our next door 
neighbors were Miss Wallace, and her little Nellie 
that she told us about that day on the boat. 
Nellie is a white cat, but why this should make her 
think she is any better than we colored cats, I can- 
not understand. She would sit for hours on her 
window-sill, and hump her back and hiss every time 
one of us came in sight ; so we very soon con- 
