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A GUEST. 
CHAPTER III. 
THE SMALLER SPOTTED CATS. 
One evening, a day or two after the kit¬ 
ten’s adventure, as the children were getting 
ready to hear Aunt Louisa’s lecture, the 
noise ef carriage-wheels was heard in front 
of the house, and presently after a ring at 
the door-hell. 
“There, now!” exclaimed Sidney, impa¬ 
tiently: u some one is coming, and we shall 
have no lecture, after all! I do wish people 
would not be visiting always and interrupt¬ 
ing one just at the wrong time!” 
“ Sidney, for shame!” said Daisy. “ How 
would you like it?” 
“Like what?” 
“Like being talked about in that way 
when you went anywhere? And perhaps 
it is somebody you want to see.” 
“ I don’t want to see anybody so much as 
