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place for cats, if Mrs. Smith and mistress think so ; 
and perhaps I ought to have made the title of this 
chapter read “ Three Far Journeys ” instead of two. 
About the time mistress returned from Switzer- 
land a lady and a gentleman came to live across 
the street from us, and they brought with them a 
white cat. Of course, after the way Nellie had 
treated us we were in no great hurry to make the 
acquaintance of Snowdrop, as they called him ; but 
we used to watch him from our shelf on the porch 
as he would have his ups and downs with Goldie, 
and we soon discovered that he was very much 
like the rest of us in his daily conduct. True, 
there were times when he would sit on his mis- 
tress’ sewing-table by the front chamber window, 
and groom and primp himself just like Nellie, and 
try to look pretty ; but the very same day perhaps 
he would be rolling in the gutter as if he thought a 
dust bath the very best thing to improve his ap- 
pearance. Then also he was a great fellow to ex- 
plore the neighborhood, and after he had nosed 
around in every nook and corner on his own side 
of the street he came to our side one afternoon and 
went over into the corn-field. Budge and I fol- 
lowed him, and after the formal greetings common 
