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Title: The Hunter Cats of Connorloa

Author: Helen Jackson

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Language: English

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CAT STORIES.

BY

HELEN JACKSON (H. H.),

AUTHOR OF "RAMONA," "NELLY'S SILVER MINE," "BITS OF TALK," ETC.

LETTERS FROM A CAT.

MAMMY TITTLEBACK AND HER FAMILY.

THE HUNTER CATS OF CONNORLOA.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

BOSTON:

ROBERTS BROTHERS.

1886.

THE HUNTER CATS

OF

CONNORLOA.

[Illustration: CONNORLOA.]

THE

HUNTER CATS

OF

CONNORLOA.

BY HELEN JACKSON

(_H. H._),

AUTHOR OF "LETTERS FROM A CAT," "MAMMY TITTLEBACK AND HER
FAMILY," ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON:

ROBERTS BROTHERS.

1886.

_Copyright_, 1884,
BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

[Illustration: Decorative panel]*

THE HUNTER CATS

OF

CONNORLOA.

I.

Once on a time, there lived in California a gentleman whose name was
Connor,--Mr. George Connor. He was an orphan, and had no brothers and
only one sister. This sister was married to an Italian gentleman, one of
the chamberlains to the King of Italy. She might almost as well have
been dead, so far as her brother George's seeing her was concerned; for
he, poor gentleman, was much too ill to cross the ocean to