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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44914 ***
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and
+italic text is surrounded by _underscores_. Obvious punctuation errors
+have been repaired however the unusual use of quotation marks in
+continuing paragraphs was retained as printed.]
+
+[Illustration: "The lady came into the room to find out why the dog had
+called out. Mew-Mew ... crept out." _Page 19._]
+
+
+
+
+BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW
+
+    BY
+    GEORGIANA M. CRAIK
+
+
+    EDITED BY
+    JOSEPH C. SINDELAR
+
+
+    _Author of_ NIXIE BUNNY IN MANNERS-LAND
+    NIXIE BUNNY IN WORKADAY-LAND
+    NIXIE BUNNY IN HOLIDAY-LAND
+    NIXIE BUNNY IN FARAWAY-LANDS
+    FATHER THRIFT AND HIS ANIMAL FRIENDS
+    MORNING EXERCISES FOR ALL THE YEAR
+    BEST MEMORY GEMS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY
+    CHICAGO
+
+
+
+
+    COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY
+    JOSEPH C. SINDELAR
+
+    _Made in U. S. A._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+    CHAPTER                                               PAGE
+          I BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW                              7
+         II BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW ARE NOT HAPPY                9
+        III MEW-MEW FALLS ASLEEP                            11
+         IV THE CHICKS, THE PIGS, THE DUCKS                 13
+          V BOW-WOW IS HURT                                 16
+         VI BOW-WOW IN BED                                  18
+        VII MEW-MEW BY THE FIRE                             20
+       VIII BOW-WOW IN GREAT PAIN                           21
+         IX MEW-MEW A NURSE                                 24
+          X BOW-WOW FEELS VERY ILL                          27
+         XI WILL BOW-WOW DIE?                               29
+        XII BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW BECOME FRIENDS              31
+       XIII MEW-MEW SEEKS SOME FOOD                         34
+        XIV BOW-WOW DOES NOT DIE                            37
+         XV BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW ARE VERY GREAT FRIENDS      39
+        XVI BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW WILL GO AWAY                41
+       XVII SHALL THEY START SO SOON?                       44
+      XVIII SAYING "GOOD-BY"                                46
+        XIX BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW SET OFF                     48
+         XX RUNNING AWAY                                    51
+        XXI IS IT GOOD FUN?                                 52
+       XXII IN THE FIELDS                                   55
+      XXIII PUSS FALLS LAME                                 57
+       XXIV IN THE CORN-FIELD                               59
+        XXV THE FIRST MEAL                                  62
+       XXVI THE WORK OF EACH RUNAWAY                        64
+      XXVII THE BIG SHEEP-DOG                               66
+     XXVIII BOW-WOW IS BADLY HURT                           69
+       XXIX PUSS TURNS NURSE                                71
+        XXX CROSS WORDS                                     73
+       XXXI HOW THE RUNAWAYS FARED                          76
+      XXXII KIND FRIENDS                                    78
+     XXXIII BAD BLOWS                                       80
+      XXXIV THOUGHTS OF HOME                                83
+       XXXV WHERE WAS HOME?                                 85
+      XXXVI PUSS FALLS ILL                                  87
+     XXXVII THE OLD FARM-HOUSE                              88
+    XXXVIII HOME                                            90
+      XXXIX TELL US MORE                                    92
+            ABOUT THE BOOK                                  95
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW
+
+
+"Get out of the way," said a little fat dog, as he came near the fire.
+
+"I shall not get out of your way," said the white puss, who had got
+the best place first. "Do you keep out of my way!"
+
+"You are as bad a cat as ever I saw," cried the dog, in a rage.
+
+The dog's name was Bow-Wow.
+
+"I am not half so bad a cat as you are a dog," said Mew-Mew.
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew were a very young dog and cat.
+
+They did not know how to be good. No one had told them.
+
+They did not use kind words the one to the other.
+
+They led a sad life, and were cross all day long.
+
+Bow-Wow said that Mew-Mew was idle, vain, and cross, and of no use to
+any one.
+
+And Mew-Mew said of Bow-Wow, that he was only fit to bark, that he was
+all for himself and ever in the way.
+
+Thus they used to go on all day.
+
+It was quite a treat when they fell asleep. That was the only time that
+there was peace with them.
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW ARE NOT HAPPY
+
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew did not love each other. But you must know that
+they did not find good in any thing.
+
+All was bad alike to them.
+
+They did not like the house they lived in; they did not like the lady
+they lived with; nor the food they had to eat.
+
+They said they did not have what was good for them to eat or to drink.
+
+Bow-Wow wanted other little dogs about the place, so that he could have
+a good game of play.
+
+Mew-Mew sat with her eyes half shut for hours, to think what a shame it
+was no other cat ever came to see her.
+
+"Now if I had a real home," Mew-Mew would say, "I would have a lot of
+young cats in it.
+
+I would have a fire in every room, a cup of warm milk on each floor,
+and all the meat in the house should be cut up into little bits.
+
+And I would kill Bow-Wow and all the dogs that came near my house."
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+MEW-MEW FALLS ASLEEP
+
+
+Mew-Mew would think of such a life till she grew quite glad.
+
+She would begin to purr, and so sing herself off to sleep.
+
+"Did ever any one see such a cat?" Bow-Wow said, when Mew-Mew acted in
+this way.
+
+"She sings as if she were out of her wits.
+
+I have seen much in my life" (he was quite young), "but I have never
+seen so silly a cat as Mew-Mew is."
+
+Then he would go to Mew-Mew and give her a blow on the side of her head
+to wake her up.
+
+Mew-Mew would spring up like a shot.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And if Bow-Wow did not take to his heels with all his might, which he
+very often did, Mew-Mew would use her paws in such a way as to make him
+wish he had left her to have her sleep out.
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew lived in a farm-house.
+
+You shall hear how this dog and cat were often put out, and how much
+they had to bear.
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+THE CHICKS, THE PIGS, THE DUCKS
+
+
+First, there were the chicks.
+
+"They eat all day long," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"I cannot bear them; I wish I might eat them."
+
+Then there were the pigs.
+
+Bow-Wow did not like the pigs.
+
+For one day he had gone into their sty to bark at them. But they did
+not fear him and did not try to get away.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In fact, they trod on him till he was well-nigh dead.
+
+He kept away from the pigs after that; at any rate, he did not go into
+their sty again.
+
+Then the ducks.
+
+If there was one thing Mew-Mew did not like, it was the ducks.
+
+The ducks made a great deal too much noise, they did not even know how
+to walk, and they had a very bad way of going into the water.
+
+The horse and the cow were much too big.
+
+It was not safe to go near them.
+
+They had a way of using their feet, which Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew did not
+like at all.
+
+The dog and cat had not one thing which they did like.
+
+The lady was not quite so bad as the rest. Still she was to blame that
+there were not fires in every room, cups of warm milk on every floor,
+and bits of good meat in the dish.
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+BOW-WOW IS HURT
+
+
+It came about one day that Bow-Wow was badly hurt.
+
+He had gone into the barn-yard "for no harm at all," he said, but to
+bark at the chicks, and put them in fear of their lives.
+
+He had great fun with one chick, which ran away from him, and flew up
+to its perch.
+
+Bow-Wow went after it and made leaps into the air to get it, and was
+just as glad as he could be.
+
+But all at once he could jump no more.
+
+A large log of wood fell on him. He felt great pain.
+
+This made him cry, so that one could hear him half a mile away.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The lady ran out to see why Bow-Wow cried so loud. She took the wood
+off him.
+
+Then she found that the bone of one leg was hurt.
+
+A man was sent for to dress the leg, and Bow-Wow was put to bed.
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+BOW-WOW IN BED
+
+
+As soon as Bow-Wow was in bed, Mew-Mew came into the room.
+
+She was as glad as she could be to see poor Bow-Wow in pain.
+
+"Well, you are a fine sort of dog, you are," she said; "why could you
+not leave the chicks alone?
+
+It is a pity you did not break all your legs.
+
+I wish you had done so.
+
+Anyhow, it will be a long time before you get about again.
+
+I shall have the nice warm fire all to myself now."
+
+"Oh--h--h!" cried Bow-Wow, for the poor little dog felt very ill.
+
+Then the bad Mew-Mew put up her paw and gave Bow-Wow such a blow that
+it made him cry loud again with pain.
+
+The lady came into the room to find out why the dog had called out.
+
+Then Mew-Mew, who, to tell the truth, knew that she had not done what
+was right, crept out by the open door. (See picture on page 2.)
+
+She took care to keep out of the way for the rest of the day.
+
+It was only when it was quite dark, and the lady had gone to bed, that
+she dared to come into the room again, and take her place before the
+fire.
+
+
+
+
+VII
+
+MEW-MEW BY THE FIRE
+
+
+Bow-Wow was in his little bed. Great care had been taken of him.
+
+He had not gone to sleep, for his leg hurt him so much that he could
+not get to sleep at all.
+
+When he saw Mew-Mew come into the room he was in such fear that he did
+not know what to do.
+
+She had been such a bad cat in the day, that Bow-Wow did not feel at
+all sure but that now, when the lady was in bed, Mew-Mew might kill him.
+
+It was a sad case for Bow-Wow. He shut his eyes, all but the least bit.
+
+He kept them just far enough open, to see what Mew-Mew was doing, and
+then he lay quite still.
+
+Mew-Mew gave one look at Bow-Wow's bed.
+
+"Bow-Wow is asleep," she said. "I will not be unkind to him again."
+
+Then she went to the fire, and sat with her back to Bow-Wow, that he
+might not see her; and she began to wash her coat.
+
+This was such a long task that she soon forgot all about Bow-Wow.
+
+She sat for a long time in the same place, even after the fire had gone
+out.
+
+
+
+
+VIII
+
+BOW-WOW IN GREAT PAIN
+
+
+Mew-Mew had a nice coat, white as milk.
+
+She kept it very clean, for she washed it for a good many hours each
+day.
+
+Bow-Wow used to say, "Why, you will wash it all away."
+
+Mew-Mew did not mind that a bit, for she knew that Bow-Wow only said
+this when he felt vexed that he had not a nice white coat.
+
+Bow-Wow's coat was black as coal.
+
+Mew-Mew sat by the fire and washed her coat.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Bow-Wow did not dare to go to sleep, for fear of what the cat might do.
+
+At last he was quite worn out.
+
+His leg was very painful, too.
+
+After the cat had washed and washed for an hour and a half, Bow-Wow
+could bear it no longer.
+
+He turned himself in bed and gave a great groan.
+
+Mew-Mew left off washing at once.
+
+"I will groan again," said Bow-Wow; "I may as well, as I have done so
+once."
+
+He did groan again, and over and over again.
+
+If he were to be killed, he could not help it, and the pain did not
+seem so bad while he groaned.
+
+"Oh! you are awake, are you?" said Mew-Mew.
+
+"Oh--h--h! yes, I am awake," and Bow-Wow gave another great groan.
+
+
+
+
+IX
+
+MEW-MEW A NURSE
+
+
+"Do you mean to make that noise all night?" said the cat, in a very
+sharp way.
+
+"I do not know. I hope not. I wish I could lose this bad pain."
+
+"You _are_ a bad dog," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"You have a nice warm bed to lie on; great care has been taken of you;
+you have had good food to eat; what more can you want?
+
+"Yet you lie there and groan.
+
+"As for poor me, all I have to lie on is an old bit of rug.
+
+I think it is I that ought to groan."
+
+"I wish you had my leg," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Oh, we shall never hear the last of that leg now." Then, as she had no
+more to say, she went to her rug to sleep.
+
+But she had only slept for a little while, and had fallen into a nice
+dream about a mouse, when Bow-Wow gave a great cry.
+
+"Why do you call out in that way?" said Mew-Mew, in a rage.
+
+"I am so hot," cried Bow-Wow, "that I think I shall die."
+
+"I wish you were dead," said the cat.
+
+"Why did you wake me from my first sleep and let that fat mouse get
+away from me?
+
+Am I to be kept awake all night to nurse you?"
+
+"I only want you to take the rug off me," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Oh, dear! dear!" cried Mew-Mew.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But she took off the rug, and put it near the fire.
+
+It would make her a nice soft bed. The rug she had was not so good and
+soft as this.
+
+
+
+
+X
+
+BOW-WOW FEELS VERY ILL
+
+
+"Well, will that do?" said Mew-Mew.
+
+"Oh, I do not know; I am very ill."
+
+"I dare say you are not a bit worse than I am; you have not a bad cold
+as I have."
+
+"A bad cold! What is a bad cold to a leg as full of pain as mine is?"
+
+"Oh! there you are! all about the leg again!"
+
+Mew-Mew went off to her rug, and was soon fast asleep.
+
+She slept this time for a good long while, and Bow-Wow slept too; but
+as break of day came, Bow-Wow made a very loud cry.
+
+"Dear me! dear me! what is it now?" said Mew-Mew.
+
+"I cannot bear this great pain any longer. You must come and help me
+with my bad leg."
+
+"Anything for peace," said Mew-Mew, and up she came and bit through
+what was on the leg and took it off.
+
+"Well, are you all right now?"
+
+"I am better," said Bow-Wow. But he lay back, for he could not hold up
+his head.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"You do not look to me as if you would live," said the cat, after she
+had had a long look at him.
+
+"Not look as if I should live?" said Bow-Wow.
+
+"No, I do not think you will live;" and with that, she sat down before
+the dog, with her eyes fixed on his face, as if she meant to wait there
+and see the end of him.
+
+
+
+
+XI
+
+WILL BOW-WOW DIE?
+
+
+"Is there anything I can do?" asked the dog.
+
+"Oh! I do not know of anything. You must just wait."
+
+Then Mew-Mew shut her eyes for a little more sleep.
+
+"But Mew-Mew! Mew-Mew!" cried poor Bow-Wow, "you must not go to sleep.
+
+Oh, Mew-Mew! I have no one to speak to but you."
+
+"It will not help you to speak," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"You are much too fond of your own voice; I have told you that over and
+over again."
+
+"Yes, Mew-Mew, so you have. But you would not have me die, would you?
+
+I have so many things I should like to say to you.
+
+What will you do without me when I am gone?"
+
+The poor little dog gave such a sad look into Mew-Mew's face, as he
+spoke these words, that Mew-Mew did not quite know what to say.
+
+To tell the truth, though she tried to think that she was very glad at
+getting rid of Bow-Wow for good and all, yet she was not quite sure
+about it.
+
+After all, she did not know what she should do without him.
+
+But she did not wish to show that she was so weak as to care for him;
+so when he asked "What will you do when I am gone?" she said:
+
+"Oh! I shall do much as I do now."
+
+And she began to wash a speck off one of her white paws.
+
+
+
+
+XII
+
+BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW BECOME FRIENDS
+
+
+But poor little Bow-Wow could not bear this.
+
+"What!" he said, "you will go on as you do now when I am gone?
+
+You will go on just the same, when you will never have me to look
+at--or to speak to--or to fight with?"
+
+Bow-Wow's voice quite broke down. "Oh, Mew-Mew! you _are_ not kind to
+me."
+
+"Me not kind! If it comes to that, you are much more unkind than I am.
+
+You do not care a bit for me; not a bit more than if I was a chick or a
+pig.
+
+You would not sit up with _me_, as I am doing with you now--no, not if
+I had hurt ten legs," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"Oh, Mew-Mew! how can you say such things?" cried Bow-Wow. "Oh,
+Mew-Mew! how _can_ you, and with me dying!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"You would not care if _I_ were dying ten times over," said the cat.
+And she put her paw over her face, and began to cry.
+
+"I--I--I should," said Bow-Wow; "I am sure I should care very much."
+
+"Well, well," said Mew-Mew, "I do not wish to be cross with you, now
+that you are about to die."
+
+"Let us be friends then," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"We will," said Mew-Mew.
+
+Then they were quite still for some time. They did not know what to
+make of being friends.
+
+They did not speak, for they did not know what to say.
+
+
+
+
+XIII
+
+MEW-MEW SEEKS SOME FOOD
+
+
+Mew-Mew was the first to speak.
+
+"How are you now, Bow-Wow?" she said.
+
+"How do I look?" said the dog.
+
+"Ah! not very well. There is a look in your eyes I do not like."
+
+"Oh, if it is only my eyes," said Bow-Wow, "I can change that.... Look
+at me now, Mew-Mew."
+
+"That is not the same look at all," said the cat. "Your eyes are as
+bright as mine now, Bow-Wow."
+
+"No, no--not so bright as yours. No other eyes could be as bright as
+yours, Mew-Mew.
+
+But I do feel a good deal better now, and I think, dear Mew-Mew, that
+if I could get a long sleep and some nice food--"
+
+"Should you like a mouse?" cried Mew-Mew.
+
+"Ah! I fear a mouse would get away from me.
+
+I do not know how to deal with a mouse as you do, Mew-Mew, even when I
+am well.
+
+I should like some cold meat."
+
+"Well, I will see what I can do," said Mew-Mew.
+
+Away she went; but the only food that she could find was some cold
+pork.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She had two or three bites at this, to make sure it was good, and then
+went back to Bow-Wow with her prize.
+
+"What is it, Mew-Mew?"
+
+"Cold pork: very nice." And she put it before him.
+
+"Please have some too, Mew-Mew."
+
+"Well, I do not care if I do," said the cat.
+
+
+
+
+XIV
+
+BOW-WOW DOES NOT DIE
+
+
+They both set to work with a good will. In a very short time the cold
+pork was all gone.
+
+"It was very good," said Bow-Wow, with a sigh.
+
+"It has done me a great deal of good. Is there any more of it?"
+
+"Not a bit more," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"Well, it cannot be helped. Shall I try now to go to sleep?"
+
+"Yes, do, and I will make up your bed for you."
+
+This she did, and the dog lay down and shut his eyes.
+
+"I will just give my coat a wash, and then try to go to sleep too,"
+said Mew-Mew.
+
+"Be sure you call me if you feel worse, dear Bow-Wow."
+
+The little boys and girls who read this book will be glad to know that
+in spite of all the fright which Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew had, the dog was
+in no danger of dying at all.
+
+He had to stay in bed for a whole week, and for ten days more was very
+weak, and had to take care what he ate, and where he went.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Yet by the end of a month he was as strong as ever, and would bark at
+the pigs and hunt the chicks just as he had done before.
+
+
+
+
+XV
+
+BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW ARE VERY GREAT FRIENDS
+
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew were now great friends.
+
+Mew-Mew said that she had saved Bow-Wow's life when he was ill.
+
+She said this so often, that Bow-Wow came to think it was true, and
+looked upon her as the best friend he had in the world.
+
+As for Mew-Mew, she grew very fond of Bow-Wow; she did not like to have
+him out of her sight.
+
+They loved each other so much that if you had told them they were once
+cross and unkind they would have said:
+
+"Oh, no! that must have been some other dog and cat, it could not have
+been we."
+
+But though they were now such good friends, they did not like the rest
+of the world a bit more than they had done before.
+
+One night, after the lady had gone to bed, Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew met to
+have a talk before the fire.
+
+Bow-Wow was very sad.
+
+"Why are you so sad, Bow-Wow?" said Mew-Mew.
+
+"It is the pigs!"
+
+"What have they been doing?"
+
+"I heard them grunt as I came past the sty!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"But they did you no harm, did they?"
+
+"They would have done if they could."
+
+
+
+
+XVI
+
+BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW WILL GO AWAY
+
+
+"Well, pigs are no good anywhere, I own," said Mew-Mew, "but do you
+know, when I come to think of it, I am not sure but that chicks are
+worse."
+
+"Chicks are bad, if you like, but not so bad as pigs.
+
+You may be right, yet I do not know but that out of the whole set,
+ducks are the very worst of all," said Bow-Wow.
+
+And then he began to groan.
+
+As soon as he gave a groan Mew-Mew gave one too, and they kept on for
+some time.
+
+"I have a good mind not to bear it," said Bow-Wow at last.
+
+"Dear me! you must bear it, how can you help it?"
+
+"I can go away."
+
+"Where to?"
+
+"Anywhere."
+
+Mew-Mew was so put out with the thought of Bow-Wow going away, that
+for a time she could not speak.
+
+At last she said, "Oh, Bow-Wow, you would not leave me, would you?"
+
+"Would you not come with me?" he asked.
+
+"Yes, that I would, anywhere, to the end of the world."
+
+"Then we will go," said Bow-Wow. "It must be a good change, that is
+clear; in no place can we be as badly off as we are here."
+
+"Yes, that is quite clear," said the cat. "When shall we set off?"
+
+"Now, at once," said Bow-Wow.
+
+
+
+
+XVII
+
+SHALL THEY START SO SOON?
+
+
+"But we cannot get out yet; the doors are not open."
+
+To tell the truth, Mew-Mew did not care about getting away, as Bow-Wow
+did.
+
+She liked to stay at home.
+
+And on this night she felt that she must have a long sleep.
+
+So she said, "We must not start yet, for I have not given my coat a
+good wash."
+
+"Cannot you live one night without giving your coat a wash?" said
+Bow-Wow, in a rage.
+
+"I should think not. Would you have me to go out into the world with
+dust and dirt on my coat?
+
+And before we set out, I should like to get a thing or two that we may
+want to take with us.
+
+Let us have a sound sleep to-night. We may hope then to start in good
+time."
+
+"Well, well, as you please," said Bow-Wow, who now felt glad, too, that
+they had not to leave their warm place by the fire just then.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They lay down side by side on the rug, and went to sleep.
+
+
+
+
+XVIII
+
+SAYING "GOOD-BY"
+
+
+Next day Bow-Wow went for a walk round the farm.
+
+First he had a look at the pigs; he did not go into their sty, but he
+barked at them and said:
+
+"I am sad for you, that you can never get out for a walk, but must be
+ever in that sty. Do you not wish you had been born dogs?"
+
+And the pigs, with a grunt, said: "Go away, you little dog; we do not
+wish to talk to you. Our home is a very nice one; we do not want to
+make any change."
+
+He gave a bark at the chicks, not so much to harm them as to bid them
+good-by.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He went to the pond to get a drink and to say as his last words to the
+ducks:
+
+"Why do you not be wise and stay on the land? You can come to no harm
+here, but I am sure you will take cold by being so much in the water,
+and that may be the death of you!"
+
+But the ducks said: "Quack! quack! run off, you bad dog. You do not at
+all know what is good for us."
+
+
+
+
+XIX
+
+BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEW SET OFF
+
+
+In the night Mew-Mew had made her coat quite white.
+
+She stole a roast chick out of the house, and hid it in the dust-bin.
+
+And she took one or two other things which they might want.
+
+They did not start till the lady had given them two meals that day.
+
+At the set time they met at the dust-bin.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"But who was to carry the chick?"
+
+Bow-Wow said he could not, Mew-Mew said the same.
+
+Then said Bow-Wow: "Had we better not eat it now? It is no use to leave
+it here."
+
+They set to work, and ate the chick to the very last bone.
+
+Then they did not feel quite so fit to take a long walk as they had
+hoped.
+
+Still they made their way to the gate of the farm and out into the road.
+
+"Now we have done it," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Yes, we have done it," said Mew-Mew who did not feel at all gay.
+
+"We must step out as fast as we can," said Bow-Wow, "for I dare say
+they will be after us in half an hour."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Oh! as fast as you please," said Mew-Mew; but she wished all the time
+that she was back on her rug before the fire.
+
+So they set off at full speed.
+
+
+
+
+XX
+
+RUNNING AWAY
+
+
+They left the farm by the gate and got on the road.
+
+Bow-Wow wished to run very fast, for "I dare say they will be after us
+in half an hour," he said.
+
+He did not think but that they would soon be missed, though he said,
+"No one has ever given us much care."
+
+"Our loss," he said, "will make the lady sad and she will send out the
+men to find us."
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew ran fast, so fast that the cat was soon out of
+breath.
+
+Mew-Mew could run fast for a little way, but she was not used to long
+races.
+
+She had not gone half a mile before she began to feel quite ill.
+
+
+
+
+XXI
+
+IS IT GOOD FUN?
+
+
+"It is fine fun, is it not, Mew-Mew?" Bow-Wow called out in great joy.
+
+He had often run a long race and did not mind this run a bit.
+
+"Yes, it is fine fun," said Mew-Mew, two or three times.
+
+But at last, when for about the tenth time Bow-Wow said, "Is it not
+fine fun?" Mew-Mew could only gasp out:--
+
+"Yes--yes--it is--good fun--but--can we not--just--rest a little?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"What! rest so soon?" said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Yes--just--for--a little time."
+
+"Oh, well, if you wish it," and Bow-Wow stood still.
+
+"But what is the matter with you? Have you hurt one of your paws?"
+
+"Oh no--not that," said Mew-Mew. "We have run so fast that I have lost
+my breath."
+
+"That is sad," said Bow-Wow. "I do not know how you will be able to
+move about much in the world, if you so soon lose your breath."
+
+"But we are not to be ever on the run, are we?" said Mew-Mew, with a
+wild look in her eyes.
+
+"Well, no, not ever on the run.
+
+But there will be a good deal of it. We must do the best we can."
+
+
+
+
+XXII
+
+IN THE FIELDS
+
+
+"Have you had a rest now, Mew-Mew?" said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Oh yes," said the cat, as she got on her legs again. "We will not go
+quite so fast now, will we?"
+
+"As you please. If the men from the farm come after us, and take us
+back, it will not be I that am to blame."
+
+They set off once more.
+
+They did not keep to the road, for fear of those who might be on the
+lookout for them.
+
+Some fields were much more easy to cross than others. The best of all
+were those of nice soft short grass.
+
+The fields in which the corn had been cut, were very hard to get over.
+The short stems of the corn were sharp to their paws.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The field of large green leaves was not so bad to cross.
+
+Still it was not nice to be out of sight the whole time, and only to
+know where the other was by calling out every now and then.
+
+They could not run so fast as on the road, and though they did stop
+many times to rest, it was hard work for Mew-Mew.
+
+She was short of breath, as you know. But, worse than that, her paws
+had become so large that she could only just get along.
+
+"Oh, dear me!" she said, "what can have made my paws swell in this way,
+and what makes them so full of pain?"
+
+
+
+
+XXIII
+
+PUSS FALLS LAME
+
+
+Mew-Mew went on but a little way. She then could not even limp along
+any more.
+
+"Well, I did think you could run better than this," said Bow-Wow, not
+in a very sweet temper, when he saw her lie down.
+
+"Oh, I shall be well soon," the cat said, "it is only my paws. Oh,
+Bow-Wow, do your paws never hurt?"
+
+"I should think not," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Well, but just look at mine."
+
+And they did look odd, for they were as big again as they ought to be,
+and quite black.
+
+"Have you some thorns in them?" asked Bow-Wow. "You must put them into
+water and wash them."
+
+"Put my paws in water! I would not do such a thing for the world."
+
+"What will you do with them, then?"
+
+"I mean to lick them."
+
+"It will take you a long time to lick those paws white. But if you mean
+to do it you had better begin, for we shall not walk any more to-night.
+
+Let us creep under this corn in the field. You will not mind if I go
+to sleep, will you, Mew-Mew?"
+
+"Oh dear, no," said the cat.
+
+
+
+
+XXIV
+
+IN THE CORN-FIELD
+
+
+"I should like some food before I go to sleep," Bow-Wow said to
+himself. "I do not at all know where to get any.
+
+I must go without my supper for once."
+
+This he did, and was soon fast asleep.
+
+As for poor Mew-Mew, she had two hours' good work, before she could
+get rid of the pain in her paws, and make them look white, as they did
+before she set out.
+
+Then she made herself into a ball, and slept well till the sun was up.
+
+I dare say she would have slept half the next day, had not Bow-Wow
+called,--
+
+"Up! up! wake up, Mew-Mew!"
+
+Mew-Mew did her best to get up, and to keep her eyes open.
+
+She had never had such a day as the last.
+
+"No time to lose!" said Bow-Wow. "We must have some food!"
+
+"Oh, yes," said Mew-Mew, "we will have some birds. Wait till I have
+washed--".
+
+"Till I have washed my coat," she was going to say, but before she had
+got the last words out, she heard such a noise, all at once, in the
+trees near, that it quite put them out of her head.
+
+She looked up to see the cause of it, and then cried:--
+
+"Oh! look at the birds! Oh! dear me! Bow-Wow! look at the birds!
+
+Oh! look at them! look at them!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+XXV
+
+THE FIRST MEAL
+
+
+She had never seen so many birds, at one time, in her life before.
+
+"Well, I see them," said Bow-Wow. "Why do you not go and get some, and
+not talk so much about them?"
+
+The truth was that Bow-Wow did not much care to hear about birds.
+
+Mew-Mew had but to lie in wait for them and she could get nice tid-bits
+for herself.
+
+But Bow-Wow might look and wait, and as soon as he made a jump, the
+bird was sure to fly away.
+
+The sight of Mew-Mew's little feasts had of old been more than Bow-Wow
+was able to bear.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Why do you not get some?" said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Oh! I will get them," said Mew-Mew, "all alive."
+
+And she lost no time about it, for she had two poor little birds in no
+time.
+
+Bow-Wow ate one, she ate the other.
+
+"Will you have one more?" said Mew-Mew.
+
+"Yes, if you please," said the dog.
+
+Mew-Mew could get these birds with great ease.
+
+They had three birds each, and then as they could eat no more, they lay
+down again for a time.
+
+"It is very warm," said Mew-Mew. "I wish I had a little milk."
+
+
+
+
+XXVI
+
+THE WORK OF EACH RUNAWAY
+
+
+"Milk! Oh, you will get no milk here," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Get no milk!" said the cat.
+
+"There is no milk," said the dog, "but you can have water."
+
+"I would not take a drop of water to save my life," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"Well, well," said Bow-Wow, seeing that all the hair on her back was
+on end, "we will hope to find some milk as we go along.
+
+But I want to speak to you. I think, dear Mew-Mew, that as you can get
+birds so well,--you know how they fly away from me,--I cannot do better
+than leave you to find our food each day."
+
+"I am sure, if I can please you," said Mew-Mew, "I shall only be too
+glad to do so."
+
+"Very well," said Bow-Wow. "I will pick out our road and say when we
+shall rest, and where we shall sleep; and you can come to me at any
+time that you want help."
+
+"I will," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"And now let us set off," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Yes," said Mew-Mew. "I hope we shall find some milk as we go on."
+
+They went on for a long way, through the fields and woods, and kept out
+of the way of men and boys.
+
+
+
+
+XXVII
+
+THE BIG SHEEP-DOG
+
+
+At last, at a time when they had not looked well ahead, they heard a
+loud bark, and saw a great sheep-dog racing after them, as if he would
+break his neck.
+
+"Oh!" cried Bow-Wow.
+
+"Oh--h!" cried Mew-Mew.
+
+They did not know what to do.
+
+"We must run up a tree," said the cat.
+
+"But I cannot run up a tree," said the dog.
+
+"I am sure I cannot help you," cried Mew-Mew, and she ran with all her
+might.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There was a large tree close by; Mew-Mew flew up it, and was quite
+safe.
+
+What would poor Bow-Wow do?
+
+The great dog came up. He did not give Bow-Wow time to speak, but fell
+on him, and began to roll him over and over on the hard ground.
+
+"Oh, Mew-Mew! Mew-Mew!" cried he, calling upon the only friend he had.
+
+"What do you mean by 'Mew-Mew'?" said the big dog.
+
+And he laid hold of Bow-Wow's neck, and gave him such a shake, as if he
+would shake his life out of him.
+
+Mew-Mew, up in the tree, you may be sure, sat as still as a mouse.
+
+"Oh! let me go! and I will never--never--" cried Bow-Wow, with his
+voice getting fainter at each word.
+
+The big dog had such a hold of Bow-Wow, that he was not able to say
+what it was that he would never do.
+
+"It is all over with me," he said to himself; and he shut his eyes and
+gave himself up for lost.
+
+
+
+
+XXVIII
+
+BOW-WOW IS BADLY HURT
+
+
+Just then a loud call was heard.
+
+"Come off, Rex! Do you hear? Come off, lad!"
+
+The big dog just lifted his head at the sound, and so gave Bow-Wow time
+to get his breath, but he kept him fast on the ground.
+
+"Come off, you bad dog!" said the man again.
+
+It was not till he had called a good many times, that the big dog gave
+poor Bow-Wow a last shake, and then ran off to the man.
+
+As soon as he was quite gone, Bow-Wow, who had not dared open his lips
+before, began to groan with all his might.
+
+"Oh!" he said. "Oh! oh!"
+
+They were such sad groans, that they made Mew-Mew's heart, as she sat
+in the tree, quite come into her mouth.
+
+"What shall I do? Shall I come down, Bow-Wow?" she said.
+
+But Bow-Wow would not hear her, and only groaned more and more.
+
+"Oh, dear! dear! I do think he is dying," cried Mew-Mew; and she came
+down from the tree, though she could but just stand for fear.
+
+"Bow-Wow! can you speak?" she called out, as soon as she was down.
+
+"Do not come near me," said the little dog, in a low voice.
+
+
+
+
+XXIX
+
+PUSS TURNS NURSE
+
+
+Mew-Mew gave a look all round, and as the sheep-dog was nowhere in
+sight, she came to where Bow-Wow lay.
+
+"Go away! leave me!" said Bow-Wow.
+
+"Leave you! Never!" cried the cat. "Oh! my poor dear, dear Bow-Wow!
+Why, you are badly hurt!"
+
+"If I am badly hurt you are quite safe, at any rate," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"You run away, and leave your friend to get badly hurt, do you not?"
+
+"Ah! but is it not a good thing that I did run away?
+
+Who would nurse you now if I were hurt too?"
+
+There was something in that, so Bow-Wow said no more about it.
+
+Mew-Mew began to run over the things she could do for Bow-Wow: how she
+would put him to bed, get him some drink, and kill a bird for him.
+
+Bow-Wow said he would like some food, and that if he had a very fine
+bird, he would try to eat some of it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mew-Mew went off to find a fine bird.
+
+But go where she would, up and down, not a bird could she get.
+
+The land just there had few trees. There did not seem to be a bird in
+the place.
+
+
+
+
+XXX
+
+CROSS WORDS
+
+
+She ran up the trees, she hid in the wheat, yet she saw but six birds
+in an hour, and these all got away.
+
+She went back to Bow-Wow with a sad face.
+
+"You have come back at last," Bow-Wow said as soon as he saw her.
+"Come! make haste. Where are the birds?"
+
+"Oh, Bow-Wow, I cannot find any."
+
+"You cannot find any birds?"
+
+"Not one! It is the worst place I ever was in," and she began to sob as
+if her heart would break.
+
+"You ought to have done better," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"It is your work to find food. I told you so."
+
+"And it is your part to take care of us on the way, and you have done
+that well, have you not?" said Mew-Mew.
+
+"You have not much to talk about, anyhow," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"If I have not, I might have had, for all your good lookout," said the
+cat.
+
+Thus they grew very cross.
+
+I dare say they might even have come to blows, if it had not been that
+Bow-Wow was not able to stand.
+
+After a while they made up their cross words.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As poor Bow-Wow felt ill, they could not go on.
+
+No food was to be had.
+
+They lay down just in that place, each rolled into a tight ball, and
+soon fell asleep.
+
+
+
+
+XXXI
+
+HOW THE RUNAWAYS FARED
+
+
+They slept the rest of that day.
+
+In the night rain began to fall. This made them wake up.
+
+Bow-Wow was just able to walk to a tree, the same tree that Mew-Mew had
+used to hide in. The rain did not come so hard, close up to the trunk
+of the tree.
+
+It would take too long to tell you of all this little dog and cat had
+to bear, for many days.
+
+Often without food, in the wind and the rain, and on the cold ground at
+night, what a change after the good home they had left!
+
+Day by day they grew more thin and weak.
+
+Bow-Wow's black coat was all rusty and dusty; his bones looked as if
+they must come through his skin.
+
+As for Mew-Mew's fur, you would not think it ever could have been white
+at all, it was in such a sad state.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She used to wash her paws, and her face, two or three times a day; she
+would have done more if she could.
+
+Once they went near a house, in the hope that some food might be given
+them, but some bad boys cast stones at them, and drove them away.
+
+They had to run for their lives.
+
+
+
+
+XXXII
+
+KIND FRIENDS
+
+
+One night, after they had had no food all day, they saw a little boy
+and girl on the road, and the boy and girl saw them.
+
+They did not run away at the sight of a dog, as some boys and girls
+would have done.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When they saw how thin and poor the dog and cat were, they took out of
+their bag some bread, which they had left from dinner, and fed them.
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew were very glad to have the food, and would have
+gone home with their young friends.
+
+But the boy said, "No, you must not come home with us. We do not know
+you.
+
+We have a big dog in the yard at home. Rex would kill you, if you came
+to our house."
+
+
+
+
+XXXIII
+
+BAD BLOWS
+
+
+The one thing in their minds now was, how to get home once more.
+
+They could never agree who was most to blame that they had run away.
+
+Mew-Mew said that all the blame lay with Bow-Wow; and Bow-Wow said that
+Mew-Mew was quite as much to blame as he was, and more so.
+
+Mew-Mew could not bear this.
+
+Weak as she was, she made a spring at Bow-Wow, and gave him such a box
+on the ears, that he, being very weak too, fell right down.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When he got on his legs again, he flew at Mew-Mew.
+
+One might think they would have killed each other on the spot; but they
+were not so strong as they had been, and could not fight long.
+
+After they could fight no more, they would not speak a word for half an
+hour.
+
+Then Mew-Mew, with her kind heart, said, "I am sure I did not mean to
+hurt you, Bow-Wow!"
+
+And Bow-Wow said, "Let us not think or say any more about it.
+
+It is very sad that we cannot live without cross words and bad blows.
+
+But what are we to do? How are we to live?"
+
+"I wish we were dead," said Mew-Mew.
+
+"We soon shall be," said Bow-Wow.
+
+"But why did we ever, ever run away?" asked Mew-Mew.
+
+
+
+
+XXXIV
+
+THOUGHTS OF HOME
+
+
+Mew-Mew had asked this a good many times before and Bow-Wow had said,
+"We did it for the best."
+
+To-day he only gave a great groan.
+
+"We had such a good home!" said Mew-Mew.
+
+"We had!" said Bow-Wow.
+
+"There was food for us at all times."
+
+"There was!"
+
+"We had a fire all the year round to keep us warm."
+
+"It got too warm sometimes."
+
+"It never was too warm for me."
+
+"There were the chicks in the yard, that we did not like."
+
+"Yes, and the pigs."
+
+"And the ducks, and the horse, and the cow. Yet they did us no harm."
+
+"Well, no! I cannot say they did; that is, if we left them alone."
+
+Bow-Wow did not forget how the pigs trod on him in the sty.
+
+Mew-Mew went on: "But we gave up our good home, we left the lady who
+was so kind to us, and here we are with no food, cold, and wet, and
+nearly dead. Oh! Bow-Wow."
+
+"Oh! Mew-Mew!"
+
+They each had as sad a face as you ever saw in your life.
+
+"We may get home yet," said the dog.
+
+"Ah, if we could!" said the cat.
+
+
+
+
+XXXV
+
+WHERE WAS HOME?
+
+
+In what way did home lie? They had gone now to the right hand, now to
+the left hand, now to the north, now to the south.
+
+How to find the way by which they had come first, they could not tell.
+
+They could but walk on, and on, and on; and their poor little weak legs
+felt many a pain.
+
+"We can but go on till we die, Bow-Wow," said Mew-Mew.
+
+They went on, and never knew the least bit in the world where they were
+going.
+
+Sometimes when the sun rose, they had not the heart to get up at all.
+
+They would lie still, with their eyes shut, and try to sleep as long
+as they could, that they might not think of their pains.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When they had gone long with no food, they could not sleep, but would
+creep close to each other, or would sit and look at each other in a
+kind of fear.
+
+
+
+
+XXXVI
+
+PUSS FALLS ILL
+
+
+At last one night came, when poor little Mew-Mew lay quite flat on the
+ground, and put out her four paws.
+
+She said in a very quiet way, "I can walk no more.
+
+When the day comes, you must say good-by to me and go on alone."
+
+"Oh! Mew-Mew," cried Bow-Wow, and he went to her side and sat down.
+
+The tears came into his eyes so fast that he could not see.
+
+"I will stay here if you must stay, Mew-Mew," said Bow-Wow. "I will
+stay here and die too."
+
+"Oh, no, dear Bow-Wow; you may get home yet."
+
+"What good would it do me to get home alone?"
+
+"You could tell the lady how hard we tried to get home.
+
+I should like to have her know how hard we tried, and how sorry we
+were."
+
+"But she will never know it," said Bow-Wow. "I shall never find her. I
+cannot go on alone. I will not leave you."
+
+
+
+
+XXXVII
+
+THE OLD FARM-HOUSE
+
+
+They lay down to sleep. It was a dark cold night. They crept close,
+that they might not feel the cold so much.
+
+Bow-Wow could not sleep: he thought every hour would be Mew-Mew's last.
+
+But the hours passed on, and she still drew her breath in the same
+short way.
+
+She was alive when the sun rose.
+
+It had been night when they had come to this place--quite dark.
+
+When the light came, what do you think Bow-Wow saw?
+
+As soon as his eyes were open, and this was just as the birds began to
+sing, he saw, not far off, the farm-house at home.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There it was; and the sun shone on the warm tile roof, and on the old
+stone walls.
+
+There it was, with the barn-yard and the stacks of hay.
+
+Bow-Wow knew them every one.
+
+He gave one long look, and then such a bark, that even made poor sick
+Mew-Mew wake.
+
+
+
+
+XXXVIII
+
+HOME
+
+
+"Oh, Bow-Wow, what is it?" she said.
+
+But Bow-Wow could not tell.
+
+Not a word would come from him save one.
+
+He ran round and round as if he were wild.
+
+"HOME! HOME! HOME!" he cried.
+
+Yes, it was home at last.
+
+Mew-Mew could see it. There it was, the red house lit up by the sun.
+
+But poor Mew-Mew could not walk to it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Bow-Wow ran off to the house, and in some way or other, as dogs often
+will, made one of the men come to the place where Mew-Mew lay.
+
+He took Mew-Mew in his arms, to her long-lost home.
+
+
+
+
+XXXIX
+
+TELL US MORE
+
+
+But some little boy or girl will say, "Tell us more.
+
+Tell me,--did Mew-Mew die?
+
+Did the lady take Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew into the house again?
+
+What did she do for them, if she took them in?
+
+Did puss ever get her white coat again?
+
+And if they both got quite well again, were they good or bad
+afterward?"
+
+I will tell you.
+
+The lady was very glad to see her pets home once more.
+
+They were in such a sad way that she did not whip them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She gave Mew-Mew a cup of warm milk before the fire.
+
+Bow-Wow had a great lump of meat with no bone.
+
+Then each of them had a warm bath, and Mew-Mew was put to bed.
+
+As to Mew-Mew's coat, she washed it so often, and took such care of it,
+that in a few weeks it grew long and was quite white again.
+
+And I am glad to be able to add, that Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew were as good
+a little dog and cat ever after, as you and I could wish them to be.
+
+
+
+
+ABOUT THE BOOK
+
+
+Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew is one of the few books for beginners in reading
+that may be classed as literature. Written in words of mostly one
+syllable, it has a story to tell, which is related in so attractive a
+manner as to immediately win the favor of young children. It teaches
+English and English literature to the child in the natural way: through
+a love for the reading matter. It is the character of story that will,
+in the not distant future, replace the ordinary primer or reader
+with detached sentences, and which seldom possesses any relation to
+literature.
+
+The ultimate objects of any story can only be effected through the
+_love_ for a story. The prominent point in this story is development
+of good character, which may well be regarded as the highest purpose
+of education. The transformation from bad to good traits in the dog
+and cat cannot but have a desirable effect on every child that reads
+the story. Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew become dissatisfied with their home and
+their surroundings, and ungrateful toward their benefactress. As the
+story tells, "They did not find good in any thing." But after running
+away and suffering hunger, neglect, and bad treatment, their characters
+begin to change. They naturally come to reflect their mistress's
+goodness. They learn the value of companionship and friendship, and
+the appreciation of a home. However, the ethical thoughts in the story
+are presented without a moral. The child really _lives_ the scenes
+described. He has the emotions of the characters and feels their
+convictions. And this determines the worth of a story as an agent in
+character development.
+
+The narrative furnishes, further, the proper kind of exercise for
+the imagination. It affords abundant opportunity for the play of the
+dramatic instinct in the child, and effects a happy union of the "home
+world" and the "school world." The illustrations, drawn by Miss Hodge,
+have been planned and executed with considerable care.
+
+                                                      J. C. S.
+
+
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+End of Project Gutenberg's Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew, by Georgiana M. Craik
+
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