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Title: Our Pets

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: November 7, 2007 [EBook #23401]

Language: English

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OUR PETS

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

LONDON AND NEW YORK.

Kronheim & Co., London.

[Illustration]

OUR PETS.

This is Pol-ly's own cat, Top-sy. She looks ve-ry prim and quiet; but
if you play with her, you will find she is a ve-ry mer-ry lit-tle cat.
She will jump up-on the ta-ble at break-fast, and run off with
Pol-ly's toast; and if mam-ma be wri-ting a let-ter, Top-sy will steal
soft-ly a-long the arm of the so-fa, and rub her paw o-ver the last
word mam-ma has writ-ten, and make a great blot in the let-ter.
Some-times she will sit as still as a mouse on Un-cle Tom's shoul-der
while he is read-ing, and look so grave-ly on the book that you might
think she was read-ing too: but she is not quite wise e-nough for
that.

[Illustration]

Car-lo is Har-ry's dog, and a ve-ry good dog he is. If you were to
throw a stone twen-ty times in-to the foam-ing sea, Car-lo would
plunge in, with-out a-ny fear, and bring the ve-ry same stone out to
you. And if Har-ry loses his ball a-mong the long grass, Car-lo brings
it in a mi-nute. And he can do bet-ter things than these, for one day
in win-ter, when the ri-ver was fro-zen, and Har-ry was ska-ting on it
ve-ry nice-ly, he came to a place where the ice was thin, for a hole
had been bro-ken the day before, and there had not been time for it to
get hard a-gain. Poor Har-ry broke through the ice and sank down in-to
the wa-ter; he would have been drown-ed, but Car-lo di-ved down, and
brought him out safe. No won-der Car-lo is a pet.

These pi-geons be-long to lit-tle Pol-ly. They have a ve-ry pret-ty