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Title: Pussy and Doggy Tales

Author: Edith Nesbit

Illustrator: L. Kemp-Welch

Release Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #27190]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Pussy and Doggy Tales

Pussy
and Doggy
Tales

By
E. Nesbit

With
Illustrations
by
L. Kemp-Welch

London
J. M. Dent & Co.
Aldine House
29 & 30 Bedford Street
1899 W.C.

Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
At the Ballantyne Press

Contents

Pussy Tales

PAGE
TOO CLEVER BY HALF 3

THE WHITE PERSIAN 16

A POWERFUL FRIEND 26

A SILLY QUESTION 40

THE SELFISH PUSSY 47

MEDDLESOME PUSSY 54

NINE LIVES 62

Doggy Tales

PAGE
TINKER 79

RATS! 95

THE TABLES TURNED 100

A NOBLE DOG 108

THE DYER'S DOG 114

THE VAIN SETTER 123

List of Illustrations

PAGE
"_I may have no nose, old man, but I smell rats_" _Frontispiece_

_Page_
_Nurse dried the poor, dear, cruelly-used kittens a little_ 11

_She was very beautiful_ 17

_I who superintended the writing of his letters_ 23

_So much better to go to sleep in front of it_ 27

_Now the back of a cow is the last place where you
would look for a cat_ 33

"_I don't believe a word of it