ight be called the
sequel to it. The Democrats were not the only people in the village who
took offence at the sight of the cats. There is a Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Burnet, and some of the people who
belonged to this society, when they heard of the affair, took it into
their heads that Mr. Frank Wellington had done a very cruel thing in
shutting so many cats up in a box together. It was a very good
illustration of the way stories grow big in many times telling, the way
the number of those cats went on growing bigger and bigger every time
the story was told. At last they got it up as high as forty-five; and
there really were some people in town who believed that forty-five cats
had come from Mendon to Burnet in that box. "Jerry says they haven't
ever had it lower than twenty-five," said Mrs. Chapman. "It runs all the
way from forty-five to twenty-five, but twenty-five is the lowest, and
there was one man in the town who really did threaten pretty seriously
to enter a complaint against Frank Wellington with the society, but I
guess he was laughed out of it. It is almost a pity he didn't do it, it
would have been such a joke all round."

This is all I have to tell you about Mammy Tittleback and her family
now. When I go back to Burnet next summer, I hope I shall find her with
six more little kittens, and Johnny and Rosy as happy with them as they
were with Spitfire, Blacky, Coaley, Limbab, Lily, and Gregory Second.

THE END.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation has been standardised.

Page 7, changed "Limbat" to "Limbab" on Genealogical Tree

Page 7, changed "Lilly" to "Lily" on Genealogical Tree

Illustration following Page 96, changed "Blackie" to "Blacky" (Now
Blacky lies)

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