BOBBSEY TWINS ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA
THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN WASHINGTON
THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE GREAT WEST
THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT CEDAR CAMP

THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES

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THE SIX LITTLE BUNKERS SERIES

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THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES

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Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York
Copyright, 1921, by
Grosset & Dunlap

The Story of a China Cat

[Illustration: The China Cat Has a Ride in Nodding Donkey's Wagon.

_Frontispiece_--(_Page 113_)]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I TOY-SHOP FUN 1
II A NICE LITTLE GIRL 14
III "FIRE! FIRE!" 28
IV A LITTLE BLACK BOY 38
V ROUGH PLAY 50
VI A TERRIBLE STORM 63
VII THE RESCUE 76
VIII JENNIE GETS THE CAT 87
IX AN OLD FRIEND 101
X THE GLARING EYES 111

THE STORY OF A CHINA CAT

CHAPTER I

TOY-SHOP FUN

Toot! Toot! Tootity-toot-toot!

"Goodness me! who is blowing the horn?" asked the Talking Doll, as she
sat up on the shelf in the toy shop. "This isn't Friday; and we don't
want any fish!"

"Speak for yourself, if you please," said a large, white China Cat, who
had just finished washing a few specks of dirt off her shiny coat with
her red tongue. "I could enjoy a bit of fish right now."

"I should rather have pie," said the Talking Doll. "But who blew the
horn? That is what I'd like to know. No one has a horn in this toy shop
that I know anything about."

"It wasn't a horn--that was a trumpet," said another voice. "I'll blow
it again!"

Then there sounded a jolly noise through the quiet toy shop, which was
in darkness except for one electric light in the middle of the store.

Toot! Toot! Tootity-toot-toot! echoed the merry notes.

"What a pretty sound," said the Jumping Jack, as he jerked his arms and
legs up and down, for he had just awakened from his long day of sleep.

"Isn't it nice," agreed Tumbling Tom, a queer toy who never could stand
up, because he was made in such a funny way that he always fell down. "I
wonder if there is going to be a parade?"

"Who is blowing that horn, an