AT HOME.
Julia loved the kitten, and the kitten loved Julia. Once more the halls
rang with the little girl’s merry laugh.
Puss learned some smart tricks.
Mr. Cary showed Julia how she might teach the kitten to jump through
her arms.
Clasping her little hands, and holding her arms out like a hoop, she
would kneel on the floor. Puss would step over her hands, held so low.
Then Julia held her arms up a little; and soon the kitten could hop
through this pretty hoop. By-and-by Julia could stand up, and the kitty
would come when she called “Puss! puss!” and jump through her arms,
which was a pretty sight.
Ellen, too, grew fond of puss, and was very kind to her. She would
play with Ellen’s spools of thread, and roll about her ball of
mending-cotton, while the good nurse sat sewing with Julia beside her.
So this simple kitten, one of the humblest of God’s creatures, helped
to make poor motherless Julia a happy child.
Transcriber’s Notes
pg 42 Changed: My heartache will come baek again
to: My heartache will come back again