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Title: The Life and Adventures of Poor Puss

Author: Lucy Gray

Release Date: December 3, 2007 [EBook #23686]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Alas! Poor Puss.]

THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
POOR PUSS.

BY LUCY GRAY,
Author of "The Twin Brothers", &c., &c.

EASINGWOLD:
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS GILL,
AMEN CORNER.

EASINGWOLD:
_Gill, Printer, Amen Corner._

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF POOR PUSS.

[Illustration]

Poor Puss, the subject of the following memoir, was the favourite
companion of Widow Wales and her little girl Julia. She departed this
life in her fifth year, and was interred at the bottom of the garden,
last Thursday morning at half-past eight o'clock. The cause of her death
proceeded from an internal disorder and shortness of breath. For a week
or more it was evident that her end was fast approaching, as her
strength was nearly gone, and she was unable to perform her usual
duties.

The principal events in the life of poor Puss, we shall now endeavour to
relate. She was born at a farm house, in the neighbourhood of
Easingwold. At a very early period in life she became addicted to little
petty thefts and misdemeanors, such as getting into the dairy and
lapping the cream from the bowls, and stealing meat or anything that
happened to be on the table, as soon as ever she had a chance. For these
and other acts of transgression she frequently got a good whipping, so
that she was very shy of going into the dairy again.

When she got a little older, she would frequently run about in the yard,
and play with old Keeper and hid