(sometimes called}
GRANDFATHER,) }

V.

BEAUTY,} MAMMY TITTLEBACK'S first grandkittens,
CLOVER,} being the first kittens of MOUSIEWARY.

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MAMMY TITTLEBACK

AND HER FAMILY.

I.

Mammy Tittleback is a splendid great tortoise-shell cat,--yellow and
black and white; nearly equal parts of each color, except on her tail
and her face. Her tail is all black; and her face is white, with only a
little black and yellow about the ears and eyes. Her face is a very
kind-looking face, but her tail is a fierce one; and when she is angry,
she can swell it up in a minute, till it looks almost as big as her
body.

Nobody knows where Mammy Tittleback was born, or where she came from.
She appeared one morning at Mr. Frank Wellington's, in the town of
Mendon in Pennsylvania. Phil and Fred Wellington, Mr. Frank Wellington's
boys, liked her looks, and invited her to stay; that is, they gave her
all the milk she wanted to drink, and that is the best way to make a cat
understand that you want her to live with you. So she stayed, and Phil
and Fred named her Mammy Tittleback after a cat they had read about in
the "New York Tribune."

Phil and Fred have two cousins who often go to visit them. Their names
are Johnny and Rosy Chapman; and if it had not been for Johnny and Rosy
Chapman, there would never have been this nice story to tell about Mammy
Tittleback: for Phil and Fred are big boys, and do not care very much
about cats; they like to see them around, and to make them comfortable;
but Johnny and Rosy are quite different. Johnny is only eight and Rosy
six, and they love cats and kittens better than anything else in the
world; and when they went to spend this last summer at their Uncle Frank
Wellington's, and found Mammy Tittleback with six little kittens, just
born, they thought such a piece of luck never had happened before to two
children.

Juniper and Mousiewary had been born the year before. Phil named these.
Juniper was a splendid great fellow, nearly all white. At first he was
called "Junior," but they changed it afterward to "Juniper," because, as
Phil said, they didn't know what his father's name was, and there wasn't
any sense in calling him "Junior," and, besides, "Juniper" sounded
better.

Mousiewary was white, with a black and yellow head. Phil called her
"Mousiewary" because she would lie still so long watching for a mouse.
She was a year and a half old when Johnny an