LITTLE THIEVES.
So now there were only two kittens in aunt Abby’s house.
Julia found them in mischief that very day, up on the kitchen table.
Aunt Abby was getting ready to make a custard. She had gone to the
pantry for some eggs, and had left the milk on the table, and the
sugar-jar uncovered. When she stepped out of the kitchen, the kittens
stepped in. The flies, perhaps, had been in before.
No little boy or girl would meddle with sugar or milk left in the way;
but it is hard to teach kittens that it is wrong to touch what is not
theirs.
[Illustration: Two cats eating]
When aunt Abby and Julia came back with the eggs, the flies were
stealing the sugar and the kittens were lapping the milk from the
pan.
I wonder if those kittens told their mother that Ellen gave each of
them a rap on the ear.
[Illustration: Decoration]