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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Life and Adventures of Poor Puss + +Author: Lucy Gray + +Release Date: December 3, 2007 [EBook #23686] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POOR PUSS *** + + + + +Produced by Alexander Bauer and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 393px; margin-top: 100px;"> +<img src="images/image_001.png" width="393" height="600" title="" alt="Alas! +Poor Puss." /> +</div> + +<p class="center" style="margin-top:50px;">THE</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size: 160%;">LIFE AND ADVENTURES</p> +<p class="center">OF</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size: 175%;">POOR PUSS.</p> + +<p class="center" style="margin-top: 3em;"><span style="font-size: 140%;">BY LUCY GRAY,</span><br /> +<span style="font-size: 110%;">Author of "</span><span class="smcap" style="font-size: 110%;">The Twin Brothers</span><span style="font-size: 110%;">" &c., &c.</span></p> + +<p class="center" style="margin-top: 3em;"><span style="font-size: 110%;">EASINGWOLD:<br /> +PUBLISHED BY THOMAS GILL,</span><br /> +AMEN CORNER.</p> + +<p class="center" style="font-size: 110%; margin-top: 3em;">EASINGWOLD:<br /> +<i>Gill, Printer, Amen Corner.</i></p> + + + +<h1><span style="font-size: 65%;">THE</span><br /> +<span style="font-size: 85%;">LIFE AND ADVENTURES</span><br /> +<span style="font-size: 50%;">OF</span><br /> +POOR PUSS.</h1> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_004.png" width="500" height="421" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Poor Puss, the subject of the following +memoir, was the favourite companion +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +of Widow Wales and her little girl +Julia. She departed this life in her +fifth year, and was interred at the bottom +of the garden, last Thursday morning +at half-past eight o'clock. The cause +of her death proceeded from an internal +disorder and shortness of breath. For a +week or more it was evident that her end +was fast approaching, as her strength +was nearly gone, and she was unable to +perform her usual duties.</p> + +<p>The principal events in the life of +poor Puss, we shall now endeavour to +relate. She was born at a farm house, +in the neighbourhood of Easingwold. +At a very early period in life she became +addicted to little petty thefts and misdemeanors, +such as getting into the dairy +and lapping the cream from the bowls, +and stealing meat or anything that happened +to be on the table, as soon as ever +she had a chance. For these and other +acts of transgression she frequently +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +got a good whipping, so that she was +very shy of going into the dairy again.</p> + +<p>When she got a little older, she +would frequently run about in the yard, +and play with old Keeper and hide herself +in his kennel, where she would remain +concealed behind the door and +when Keeper wanted to come in, she +would spring at him, and scratch his +nose, but Keeper did not like such fun +as this, and so he fell quite vexed, and +bit a piece of her tail end, which so +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +frightened poor Puss that she durst not +come near him for a long time to come.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_006.png" width="500" height="370" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The mother of poor Puss now thought +it was high time that she should begin +to fend for herself, and so she took her +into the barn on a mousing expedition. +For a long time they watched the hole +of a mouse, which appeared to be the +residence of a whole family, and at +length the old mouse came out followed +by six little ones. The old cat seized +the old mouse, and killed three or +four of the little ones. The young cat +seized hold of one, and wanted to play +with it, but it slipped into the hole and +she could see no more of it. The other +little mouse was running away as fast as +it could, but Puss sprang at it and gave +it a nip which made it quiet enough.</p> + +<p>Puss soon became a good hand at killing +mice, but her pride received a severe +check, for one day a large rat was running +across the barn, and Puss thinking +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +it was a large mouse ran to seize it, but +the rat turned round and seized Puss by +the nose and bit her severely so that +she went away to her mother, mewing +very piteously with her face all swelled +and covered with blood.</p> + +<p>Puss durst not meddle with rats for +a long time after this, but at length she +got stronger and would kill them and +many other such vermin. She had +plenty of work, for there were many rats +at the farm house. While pursuing a +large rat one day, she set her foot into a +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +trap which had been set to catch them, +and though she was taken out very carefully +by the farmer's daughters who were +swinging in an old tree at the bottom of +the orchard, it hurt her very much and +she was lame for many weeks after.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_008.png" width="500" height="390" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Puss was now become a fine, healthy, +good looking cat, and a smart looking +Tom Cat in the neighbourhood paid his +court to Miss Puss, and asked her by +kind looks and gentle actions if she +would become his wife. Puss scolded +and scratched for some time, but at +length they made a match of it, and in +due time, Puss became a mother. She +however, notwithstanding all her skill in +concealing them, was doomed to see her +small family torn from her, and share +the same fate as her brothers and sisters +had experienced on former occasions.</p> + +<p>As Puss was rambling in the fields +some time after her confinement, in pursuit +of some birds, a number of gentlemen +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +were coursing for hares, and when +the dogs saw Puss, they immediately +started after her. Puss ran as fast as she +could, but the dogs ran much faster than +she, and were just at her heels, when +she reached a tree, and saved her life +by climbing up it.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_010.png" width="500" height="281" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Puss was now safe from the dogs, and +she remained in the tree for some time +before she durst come down again. On +her return to the farm house, three boys +who had been to school, were playing in +the fields. Each boy had a large stick +on his shoulder, and as soon as they saw +Puss, they ran after her. She again +took refuge in a tree, but the boys +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +threw stones at her and hit her so hard, +that she at length fell senseless to the +ground. One of the boys seized poor +Puss; and they were going to have some +rare sport as they said, by fastening the +cat on a board, and then launching it +on the pond, after which they would set +the dogs at her, and Puss could only +keep them off by scratching their noses. +Everything was in readiness: Puss was +bound upon the board, and they were +just going to sail it into the middle of +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +the pond, when the schoolmaster came +past, and the boys were obliged, after +receiving a good flogging, to set poor +Puss at liberty.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_011.png" width="500" height="382" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Shortly after these adventures, a +friend paid a visit to the farm house, and +being very much in want of a good cat, +he took poor Puss with him to York. +Pussy's new mistress had a fine canary +bird, which she was very fond of. One +day the canary had got through the +wires of his cage, and Puss seeing it +perched on the table, could not resist +the temptation; but sprang at it and seized +it in her claws. The poor canary +was almost eaten, when the master came +into the room, and seeing what was +done, he took a whip, and would have +killed poor Puss, but for little Mary, +who begged him to spare her life.</p> + +<p>Puss was a good mouser, and soon +cleared the house of them. She soon +got acquainted with town life, such as +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +climbing walls and houses, and jumping +from roof to roof, either in gossipping +with her neighbours or in search of prey. +Once, while showing to some other cats +how clever she was in jumping about, +she fell into the street, and would have +been killed, but for some fat sheep that +were passing along the street at the time, +and Puss had the good luck to fall upon +the back of one of them, which had so +much wool on it, as not at all to hurt +her.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_013.png" width="500" height="326" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The next adventure and misfortune of +poor Puss, was, to examine the contents +of a pigeon cote in the neighbourhood. +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +After climbing up a great height, she +contrived to leap down on the board, +and got in among the pigeons, where +she made sad havoc among the young +birds; but, the master hearing a great +noise, went up, and Puss escaped +through the door, or she would have +paid the penalty with her life. Puss +would no doubt feel very miserable after +this wholesale murder, which she had +committed among the pigeons, for she +had killed about a dozen of them. She +had escaped many deaths, and as she +was now getting old, she thought it high +time to reform. Cats have always had +a bad character for stealing, and too +frequently have they merited it.</p> + +<p>The most degrading circumstance in +the history of poor Puss, is the following. +Puss had jumped from the gateway +into the street, where an Italian was +playing an organ, with a dressed up +monkey by his side. The monkey at +once ran after Puss, and seizing her by +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +the tail, bit off the greatest part of it. +This misfortune she took so to heart, +that she never afterwards rallied. She +was seldom seen in the house. She became +asthmatical; and after lingering +some time, she departed this life, to the +great grief of her numerous friends and +relatives, among whom she was highly +respected.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">On earth short was her stay,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Her trials were severe;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But she has passed away,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And gone we know not where.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_015.png" width="500" height="409" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center" style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 80px;"><i>Gill, Printer, Easingwold.</i></p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Life and Adventures of Poor Puss, by Lucy Gray + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POOR PUSS *** + +***** This file should be named 23686-h.htm or 23686-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/6/8/23686/ + +Produced by Alexander Bauer and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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