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"_I may have no nose, old man, but I smell rats_" _Frontispiece_
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_Nurse dried the poor, dear, cruelly-used kittens a little_ 11
_She was very beautiful_ 17
_I who superintended the writing of his letters_ 23
_So much better to go to sleep in front of it_ 27
_Now the back of a cow is the last place where you
would look for a cat_ 33
"_I don't believe a word of it_" 43
_I was picked up in the street by a child_ 49
_The dog saw me off_ 53
_Seeing the tea set out, I got on the table_ 59
_Sitting up, and beginning to wash the kitten's face
very hard indeed_ 73
_The man's arm dragged through the window-pane,
and Tinker hanging on to his fingers_ 89
_It was a magnificent fight_ 106
_He pulled her out some ten yards down the stream_ 111
_Sat in the sun on the dyer's doorstep_ 117
_I took the first prize_ 127