Then the little black kitten ran over to the washtubs and, jumping on a stool, turned the hot-water faucet.
This last invitation was bestowed upon a pretty little playful kitten which had been following the girl about the ship all the morning.
The much-enduring kitten being sent forth as a dove upon the waters failed to return with the olive-branch; of which peaceful emblem there was soon great need, for mutiny broke out, and spread with disastrous rapidity.
Mrs. Evans had indeed been kind to her as the "companion of her afflicted boy," as she would also have been to a pet kitten or anything that would have added to the happiness or comfort of her child.
The overseer "had seen him frolicking like a kitten among them and told him not to climb to the top one, as he seemed inclined to do"; and that was all that could be revealed of the sad story!
Still, something had to be done: he was compelled to stay in this place, and he did not wish to be reduced to the imbecility of wretched little Phipps who had become at last more like a whimpering kitten with the mange than a human being.
This was the old "Gregory" after whom the kitten "Gregory Second" over at Mendon had been named.
My uncle dragged the kitten from under the table and shook him in the air.
They begin to investigate its origin, and discover a kitten under Nina's pinafore.
The kittenon being released darted under the table with his tail in the air.
The kitten raised his head, looked lazily after him, and shut his eyes again.
When the saucer had vanished into obscurity a piece of meat appeared, dropped by Praskovya; the meat ran away with a cowardly squeak, but the kitten made a bound and got his claws into it.
A kitten is moving about by the lamp, on stamped note paper.
When the third mouse had been caught, the kitten shivered all over at the sight of the mousetrap and its inmate, and scratched Praskovya's hand.
After the outrage of the previous day the kitten had taken refuge under the stove and had not come out all night.
A year passed, the thin, frail kitten had turned into a solid and sagacious tom-cat.
Pyotr Demyanitch took thekitten by the scruff of the neck and pushed him with his nose against the mouse-trap.
They decide that one kitten shall remain at home with the old cat to be a comfort to her mother, while the second shall go to their summer villa, and the third shall live in the cellar, where there are ever so many rats.
For all that demure manner and her Madonna face she's as full of mischief as a kittenwhen something starts her off.
But instead of beginning any sort of argument she laid her arm upon his knee, and her head down upon her arm, and became as still as a kitten who has composed itself for sleep.
She took the ribbon from her hair The kitten to bedeck, Then brought its tail between its legs And tied it tail and neck.
To make sure he was missing nothing that a kitten should not miss, Dot opened his drowsy eyes and looked around.
This was more than any kitten could stand, and Calico rebelled openly; she spat at her worried mamma!
With a pained cry the littlekitten dashed wildly from the verandah, and it was several days before he could be persuaded to go on it again--the beetle had been on the piazza!
Just as she was becoming quite reckless, almost prancing, with feet stepping at least half an inch from the floor, there suddenly yawned directly in front of the astounded kitten the six-inch chasm of the drinking dish!
Though she was too heavy for the little mother to lift, still Mrs. Tabby would not give up, and tried to claw her kitten out with sudden dabs, as she took the fish from the brook.
Tabby sighed, as the kitten made yet another start for her sisters, but wisely let her go.
As he had not seen or felt the wasp until it stung him, his kitten mind could only think that somehow the awful black thing had hurt him cruelly.
From the time he was a tiny kitten Ebony had known no home, and such food as he had was picked up when and wherever he chanced to find it.
So he pulls his head about as an old lady adjusts her cap, and passes his fore-paw over it like a kitten washing herself.
If a Cat may look at a King A Kitten may look at a Prince!
However, it was nothing like a kitten that followed the blue-bordered handkerchief out of the voluminous skirt-pocket.
It was preordained that you should play with that kitten for a moment in eternity and that for a fraction of a moment you should hide the reel.
Elsie's present was a pen-wiper, with a gray flannel kitten on it.
The kitten went round and round the table, quite erect, and, holding on by her fierce young claws, she stopped to mew with pathos at each elbow, or darted off to the open door when a song sparrow forgot himself and lit in the grass too near.
Why, this ain't that kitten I saw when I was out last, the one that I said didn't appear likely?
She's a real understandin' little help, this kitten is.
This kitten catches mice for both, an' keeps me respectable as I ain't been for a year.
I picked her from among five Miss Augusta Pernell had over to Burnt Island," said the old woman, trudging along with the kitten close at her skirts.
Now, madame must have the little kitten to keep her company,' she said, 'while I go and ask Marthon for a cup of coffee.
When Jinnie appeared five minutes later in the kitchen with a small kitten in her hand, Peg was stirring the mush for breakfast.
After a while, however, a most persistent dream began to disturb her peaceful sleep, a dream about a soft grey kitten whose silky fur she kept stroking, stroking until her hand was tired; but yet she could not stop.
He did not even notice the kitten in his arms when she put her nose up against his cheek.
After a good romp with her, he had thrown himself down on the soft green grass to rest, and the queer little kitten had gone out into the middle of the dusty road and curled herself up for a nice nap.
In a moment more his eye fell upon the kitten lying fast asleep in the middle of the highway.
As the kittencame down, the learned judge popped out his head.
My little white kitten's asleep on my knee; As white as the snow or the lilies is she; She wakes up with a pur When I stroke her soft fur: Was there ever another white kitten like her?
