The Lost Kitten

<div class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE2ucT-9cfNwYrnw-oW-1nRFL01jehFmnhdEcsUw5s15J61tLSNVq9yMB7Z7IuylWOR02si_P_5Amn3C51E4w7kSKB3IRKr232hYq71iaKfe9V6y7KPbNhOLxmHfAjhGQ9tYcafTrB4EiY/s1600/Kitten-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE2ucT-9cfNwYrnw-oW-1nRFL01jehFmnhdEcsUw5s15J61tLSNVq9yMB7Z7IuylWOR02si_P_5Amn3C51E4w7kSKB3IRKr232hYq71iaKfe9V6y7KPbNhOLxmHfAjhGQ9tYcafTrB4EiY/s320/Kitten-1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Calla was a kitten that nobody wanted. She was a little grey and white kitten with blue eyes. She was not fat and frisky like most kittens because she had no home where there was milk in a saucer on the floor.

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She just wandered about trying to find something to eat but being such a baby kitten, she did not know exactly where to look for food. Usually the big cats found it first.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Calla followed many different people, mewing in her sad little voice as she ran after them. She seemed to be coaxing to· be taken home.

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But usually the people would hurry along paying no attention to the homeless kitten, scampering after them.

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Sometimes a person would stop and say, Scat!, which scared Calla and made her run away.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Oh Jerry," said Mother, "put that dirty cat down."</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I want to take it home, "Jerry answered." She is a hungry kitten I know."</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"But," replied Mother, "we do not have much food at our house."</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /> <a name='more'></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"She can have some of my supper.

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Please, Mother," coaxed Jerry.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Very well," she said, ''but you will have to take care of her yourself."</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Oh, I will, I will," Jerry answered happily.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so he did and Calla grew into a fine big cat.

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Then one day something very special happened to her. She had three little kittens. Jerry took special care of Calla then and gave her extra milk to drink.

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He loved to play with the three kittens and he gave them each a name which were Teeny and Tiny because they looked so very much alike and Tippy because he had a white tip on his little grey tail.</span><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jerry's mother said they could not keep so many kittens because the extra milk for Calla and her kittens cost money and Jerry's mother did not have much money.

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Jerry felt sad about this because he did not want these little kittens to be hungry and go wandering about the streets all alone begging someone to take them home.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So Jerry went about looking for a good home for each of the kittens. First he found Mr. Taylor, the baker who took Teeny because he needed a cat to catch the mice around his store.

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Then he found Mrs. Jackson who lived next door. She took Tiny to give to her little grandson for a pet. Last of all Jerry found Miss Anderson.

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She was a teacher at the school and she lived all alone so she was very happy to have Tippy for her special kitten friend to keep her company at home.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So the three kittens all bad good homes and they were happy and Calla was happy but most of all Jerry was a happy boy.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you know why?

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</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">('Child’s Way' magazine, October 1953) </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div>

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