KITTY-CAT TALES. [Illustration] [Illustration: IMPTY CURLED HIMSELF UP CLOSE TO THE PILLOW, AND BEGAN THE STORY.--_Page 12._] KITTY-CAT TALES BY ALICE VAN LEER CARRICK ILLUSTRATED BY HOMER EATON KEYES AND BERTHA G. DAVIDSON [Illustration] BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. PUBLISHED, AUGUST, 1907. COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY. _All Rights Reserved._ KITTY-CAT TALES. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. To MARGARET AND JOHN CONTENTS PAGE THE FIRST NIGHT 7 THE WHITE CAT 13 THE SECOND NIGHT 39 THE KING OF THE FIELD-MICE 41 THE THIRD NIGHT 55 THE DISCONTENTED CAT 57 THE FOURTH NIGHT 122 THE CAT WHO MARRIED A MOUSE 123 THE FIFTH NIGHT 139 MOTHER MICHEL AND HER CAT 141 THE SIXTH NIGHT 177 VENUS AND THE CAT 178 THE CAT AND THE FOX 181 THE SEVENTH NIGHT 186 DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS WONDERFUL CAT 189 THE EIGHTH NIGHT 203 THE FUNERAL OF TOM GRIMALKIN 204 THE KING OF THE CATS 210 THE NINTH NIGHT 216 PUSS-IN-BOOTS 218 ILLUSTRATIONS IMPTY CURLED HIMSELF UP CLOSE TO THE PILLOW, AND BEGAN THE STORY (Page 12) _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE THE PRINCE MOUNTED THE HOBBY-HORSE, AND FOUND THAT HE HAD NEVER RIDDEN BETTER 20 “KNOW, THEN, THAT I AM THE KING OF ALL THE FIELD-MICE” 44 THE COUNTESS CAME IN, FOLLOWED BY A LAPDOG 98 “I UNDERSTAND NOW,” SAID THE LITTLE MOUSE, QUITE GENTLY 136 HE OPENED THE BAG, AND TOSSED MOUMOUTH INTO THE WATER 150 VENUS TURNED HER AT ONCE INTO A CAT AGAIN 180 SOME BROUGHT ONE THING, SOME ANOTHER, BUT DICK WHITTINGTON HAD ONLY HIS CAT TO SEND 194 “HAVE YOU ANY SPARE TIME?” ASKED THE OWL 206 “MASTER,” SAID PUSS, “YOU HAVEN’T FARED SO BADLY AS YOU SEEM TO THINK” 220 THE FIRST NIGHT