2. 'I should not like my finger to be in the way when you shut your
mouth. Your teeth must be for tearing and cutting: I am sure you do not
chew your food as I have to do.

3. 'And what a way you have of drinking!

'Here, pussy, would you like some milk?' said Harry, and getting up, he
poured a little milk into a clean saucer.

4. The cat ran to it, and Harry went down on the floor close by to watch
her drinking it.

5. He saw that pussy's tongue was not smooth like his own, but had tiny
points all over it. It came into his mind that she had once licked his
face, and her tongue had a 'scrapy' feeling.

6. 'Do it again, pussy, dear,' he said, but she went on lapping up the
milk.

'May I touch your tongue, then, with one of my fingers?'

7. But pussy did not like this. Then Harry took a drop or two of the
milk into the palm of his hand. And when the cat had taken all she had
in the saucer, she came and licked up the milk in his hand.

8. She went on licking even when all was gone, and Harry was able in
this way to feel how rough her tongue was.

9. Just then his mother came into the kitchen, and Harry told her what
he had been doing.

She asked:

'Have you looked at pussy's eyes?'

10. 'They are funny eyes,' he said; 'they are green, but there is not
much of them to be seen.'

'Not just now,' said his mother, 'but she can open them wide when she
likes. Then she can see even in the dark.'

11. 'In the dark, mother? Well, she is not a bit like me!'

'No, she is not like you. But she has plenty of cousins. Her cousins are
the big lions and tigers, that live in hot countries, and eat sheep and
horses, and even people when they can get them.'

12. Harry thought a little, and then said: 'If I were as small as pussy
is now, and if pussy were as big as I am now, I believe she would eat
me!'

THE DOG.

fol'-lowed
moth'-er
hun'-gry
lone'-ly
win'-dow
noise
la'-zy
be-cause'
watched
friend
bur'-ied
e-nough'
Ber'-nard
shep'-herd
wrong
talk'-ing

1. A poor lost dog followed Harry and his little sister home from
school, and tried to come into the house.

[Illustration]

2. They shut the door; but, when they opened it again, the dog was still
there.

3. He looked so sad that they begged their mother to give him some food.
Then they said: 'We can't turn him out again to be hungry and lonely!
Let us keep him till some one co