uch wool on it, as not at all to hurt her.

[Illustration]

The next adventure and misfortune of poor Puss, was, to examine the
contents of a pigeon cote in the neighbourhood. After climbing up a
great height, she contrived to leap down on the board, and got in among
the pigeons, where she made sad havoc among the young birds; but, the
master hearing a great noise, went up, and Puss escaped through the
door, or she would have paid the penalty with her life. Puss would no
doubt feel very miserable after this wholesale murder, which she had
committed among the pigeons, for she had killed about a dozen of them.
She had escaped many deaths, and as she was now getting old, she thought
it high time to reform. Cats have always had a bad character for
stealing, and too frequently have they merited it.

The most degrading circumstance in the history of poor Puss, is the
following. Puss had jumped from the gateway into the street, where an
Italian was playing an organ, with a dressed up monkey by his side. The
monkey at once ran after Puss, and seizing her by the tail, bit off the
greatest part of it. This misfortune she took so to heart, that she
never afterwards rallied. She was seldom seen in the house. She became
asthmatical; and after lingering some time, she departed this life, to
the great grief of her numerous friends and relatives, among whom she
was highly respected.

On earth short was her stay,
Her trials were severe;
But she has passed away,
And gone we know not where.

[Illustration]

_Gill, Printer, Easingwold._

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