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Title: Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens

Author: Tabitha Grimalkin

Illustrator: Hammatt Billings

Release Date: September 21, 2009 [EBook #30050]

Language: English

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[Illustration: TALES FROM CATLAND.]

TALES FROM CATLAND,

FOR

LITTLE KITTENS.

BY

AN OLD TABBY.

With Engravings from Designs by Billings.

BOSTON:
TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS.
MDCCCLII.

BOSTON:
THURSTON, TORRY, AND EMERSON,
Printers, Devonshire Street.

TO THE

KITTENS OF ENGLAND,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES

ARE VERY AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,

BY THEIR

SINCERE FRIEND AND WELL-WISHER,

Tabitha Grimalkin.

TALES FROM CATLAND.

THE THREE CATS.

Many hundred years ago, in the good old times of the fairies, there
lived a young princess in a very grand palace. Its walls were of the
purest white marble, the doors were of orange-wood, the window-frames
were of gold, and the furniture of the rooms was of the most costly
description. The princess's drawing-room was