Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 61852-h.htm or 61852-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61852/61852-h/61852-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61852/61852-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/kittenscatsbooko00grov [Illustration: I AM THE QUEEN] KITTENS AND CATS A First Reader by EULALIE OSGOOD GROVER Author of “The Sunbonnet Babies’ Primer,” “The Overall Boys,” etc. [Illustration] Houghton Mifflin Company Boston · New York · Chicago · Dallas · San Francisco The Riverside Press Cambridge Copyright, 1911 by Eulalie Osgood Grover Pictures Copyrighted by the Rotograph Co. All Rights Reserved Including the Right to Reproduce This Book or Parts Thereof in Any Form The Riverside Press Cambridge, Massachusetts Printed in the U.S.A. [Illustration: TO FRITZ WHO LOVES KITTENS AND CATS AS MUCH AS YOU AND I DO] CONTENTS THE QUEEN 2 GRANNY GRAY 4 GETTING READY 6 I WONDER 7 READY FOR THE PARTY 8 A FULL CART 9 TIME TO START 10 IS MY HAT ON STRAIGHT 12 HIDING 14 AN INVITATION 15 NO PARTY FOR ME 16 I’M OFF 18 BEING WEIGHED 20 THE PARTY 22 THE COMMANDING OFFICER 23 THE LATEST NEWS 24 WHAT IS IT? 25 I’LL SING YOU A SONG 26 A TALE OF A MOUSE 28 WE ARE THE CATS 29 A NURSE’S TALE 30 A FAMOUS MOUSER 32 A LONG TIME AGO 34 A DUNCE’S TALE 36 A TALE OF THREE KITTENS 38 THE KITTENS THREE 41 A RAINY-DAY TALE 42 A TALE OF LONDON TOWN 44 A TALE I KNOW 46 A TALE OF ST. IVES 48 A LITTLE FAIRY’S TALE 50 A SECRET 52 WHO WAS HE 54 A STRANGER 55 A SAD TALE 56 MY OWN TALE 58 THREE TALES 60 A SIGHT TO SEE 61 A ’FRAID-CAT’S TALE 62 FROM THE NORTH POLE 64 THE TWINS 66 DO WE LOOK ALIKE 67 WHAT SHALL WE SING 68 WAITING 69 DING, DONG, BELL 70 THE DINING-ROOM 72 I AM SO HUNGRY 74 THE QUEEN’S TEA-TABLE 75 SEVEN LITTLE PUSSY-CATS 76 MANY THANKS 78 GOOD NIGHT 79 THE LAST TALE 80