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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: My twin kitties - -Author: Edna Groff Deihl - -Release Date: June 5, 2022 [eBook #68248] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online - Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This - file was produced from images generously made available by - The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY TWIN KITTIES *** - - - - - - MY - TWIN - KITTIES - - -[Illustration] - - - - STORY BY - EDNA GROFF DEIHL - - - PUBLISHED BY - SAM’L GABRIEL SONS & COMPANY - NEW YORK - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - _By the Same - Author_ - - - “The Little Dog That Would - Not Wag His Tail” - - “The Little Kitten That Would - Not Wash Its Face” - - “The Teddy Bear That Prowled - at Night” - - “The Little Chick That - Would Not Go To Bed” - - “My Twin Puppies” - - “My Twin Kitties” - - - - - Copyrighted - 1924 - Sam’l Gabriel Sons & Company - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration] - -Once there were two little kittens that did not wear any mittens. All -they wore were coats—the one yellow and the other black. They both had -blue, blue eyes, and sharp teeth and feet like cushions and scratchy -claws, and they were EXACTLY THE SAME AGE! - -[Illustration] - -At first they lived on a farm, where there were so many kittens that no -one ever paid any attention to them. They had nothing to eat but mice! -They had nothing to lie on but hay! And worst of all they had no names! - -At last they decided to go out into the world and seek their fortune. -All they wanted was a home and two pretty names. - -[Illustration] - -They grew very tired walking over the long, dusty roads. But at last -they spied some little white cottages, nestled down among the green -trees. They walked right up to the very first door. - -“Meow! Meow!” they cried, “Please let us come in!” A cross old lady -opened the door and said “SCAT!” My how they ran! - -[Illustration] - -Then they walked to the second door. “Meow! Meow!” they cried, “Please -let us come in!” - -A hobblety old gentleman came to the door. “RATS!” he said, and struck -at them with his cane. My how they ran again! - -[Illustration] - -They wondered whether they should try the next door. At last they went -up quite timidly. - -“MEOW! MEOW!” they cried, “PLEASE LET US COME IN!” A dear little girl -opened the door. “Mother, look at the kitties!” she said. “May they come -in?” - -[Illustration] - -Mother nodded her head, and the two little kittens marched right into -the room! They tried to jump on the couch. They were tired and they -wanted to sleep. But the lady said, “No, you are too dirty! Come Irene, -we will give them a bath.” - -[Illustration] - -So they were put into a little tub and scrubbed! They were dried with a -soft cloth! My, how fluffy and puffy they looked then! - -Irene hugged them close to her heart. “You shall be my twins!” she said, -“and your names shall be FLUFF and PUFF.” - -[Illustration] - -Then the kitties purred with delight. They had found A HOME and TWO -PRETTY NAMES! They thought their troubles were ended. But they had never -lived in a house before. They were used to the barn. - -One day Irene could not find Fluff anywhere. Black Puff was the only one -on the couch when she came home. - -[Illustration] - -Puff meowed and meowed. He kept looking up. Then Irene looked up too! -Fluff had climbed up the curtain and could not get down. “You’ll never -find milk or mice on the ceiling, Fluff!” she said, after Mother had -gotten her down. - -[Illustration] - -Irene was knitting a pretty blue scarf. One morning she laid it on the -couch while she went to talk to a little friend. Suddenly she heard a -noise. Scamper, scamper! Pitter, patter! - -When she came in the twins were playing with her ball of blue wool. And -part of the scarf was unraveled and wound around Puff’s neck. - -[Illustration] - -After she unwound the wool, she locked them both in the cellar. She -thought that would be a dreadful punishment! But they had a GRAND TIME! -They chased a little mouse that had left his home in the wall because he -didn’t think! Fluff caught him in the coal bin. - -When Irene brought them upstairs, Fluff was as black as Puff. They had -to have another bath! - -[Illustration] - -“Dear!” sighed Irene, “Twins are such trouble!” - -The very next day, when she was writing a letter to her grandma, Puff -jumped on her lap and spilled the ink! And while she was fetching a -cloth to wipe it up, Fluff tumbled the waste-paper basket all over the -floor! - -[Illustration] - -That day she locked them in the kitchen. But they got into more trouble -than ever. They smelled fish! - -When Irene came to the kitchen, the big fish mother had bought for -dinner was falling from the table! And Puff and Fluff were having the -worst fight. - -[Illustration] - -“You are bad kitties!” she cried, and she whipped them! Then she put -them out of the house and shut the door, although her heart hurt -frightfully. “I must train them!” she said. - -Fluff looked at Puff. Puff looked at Fluff. “Meow! Meow!” Fluff said, -“We have been turned from our home.” “Meow! Meow!” answered Puff, “we -must go back to the farm!” - -[Illustration] - -When Irene looked for them at dinner-time they were gone! She looked -everywhere! But the twins were not to be found. She called them until -her throat ached. “Here Puff! Here Fluff!” But no kitties came running. - -Then she was very sad. “Dear! Dear!” she said, “They have run away -because I punished them!” - -[Illustration] - -Then Daddy came home, “Oh, Daddy!” Irene cried, “my TWINS have RUN AWAY! -We must go and find them!” So right after dinner Daddy got out the big -car. Soon they were way, way out in the country. The sun was going down -behind the hills. “Oh!” sobbed Irene, “I am afraid they are lost.” - -[Illustration] - -Suddenly Daddy stopped the car with a jerk. He had almost run over the -TWIN KITTIES! Irene jumped out and picked them up. Soon Puff and Fluff -were on their way back home. They were very happy to be cuddled in -Irene’s arms. - -[Illustration] - -She held them very close. “Dear Kitties,” she said, “you must take your -punishments bravely. If I did not correct your faults when you are -kittens, you would grow up into BAD CATS!” - -[Illustration] - -Fluff and Puff rolled up into two little balls. They were so happy that -they had such a nice, kind mistress, who trained them so well, and yet -forgave them so readily, that they purred louder than the engine. - -[Illustration] - -When they reached home Irene laid them tenderly on the pretty couch. -Then she went up to bed. Fluff and Puff did not go to sleep at once. -They lay awake planning to show their gratitude to their nice, kind -little girl mother. - -“Meow!” said Fluff, “she took us in when no one else would look at us, -and gave us a home!” - -[Illustration] - -“Mew!” answered Puff. “And she has taught us how to act in a pretty home -like this. We were not well trained when we came here.” - -“P-r-r-r-r-r!” continued Fluff in a bit softer tone. “If she hadn’t -loved us a lot she would never have searched for us.” - -[Illustration] - -“And we’d be back in the cold, cold barn!” purred Puff, cuddling down in -the warm cushion. - -“From now on we must be very, very good!” said Fluff, sleepily. -“We—must—be—very—very—good!” purred Puff softly. Then his head fell over -on Fluff’s back. They were both fast asleep. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - ● Transcriber’s Notes: - ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. - ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. - ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only - when a predominant form was found in this book. - - - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY TWIN KITTIES *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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