MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.

I am sore (four) years old. Mamma is writing this sor (for) me, as

I can not write. I have a white kitty with a black nose; mamma will

tell you his long name (Don Tomosa Felini Blackernosa, or

Backernoisa, as little four-year-old always calls him). I sit on a

cushion at the table. This morning kitty sat on the same cushion by

me, but he did not take any of my breakfast. Kitty has his supper

on the soar (floor). Jack (our little Skye terrier) sleeps with

kitty on a carpet chair. Jack bit the baby kitten (sister to Don)

because she took his meat. Brother Bertie buried the little kitten.

The kitten's mamma got shot in her paw. She was so sick we gave the

baby kitty a little bottle with milk in it, and a little piece of

sponge in it, so kitty could drink; she put both her little sont

(front) paws on the bottle when she took the milk. It cried and ran

after mamma when it was hungry. I like "Toby Tyler."

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