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so finally she had to drag1 a chair up to the bureau anti get
up on it to reach her.
Perhaps it was the fright she experienced when she found

herself up $o high that caused Kittykin to revenge herself on
the little mouse shortly afterward, or perhaps it was only her
cat instinct developing; but it was only a short time after
this that Kitty kin did an act which grieved her little mistress

dreadfully. The little mouse had lived under the wainscot
since long before Kittykin had come, arid it and Evelyn were
on very good terms. It would come out and dash along by
the wall to the wardrobe, under which it would disappear, and
after staying there some time it would hurry back. This
Evelyn used to call ‘‘ paying v isits;” and she often wondered

what mice talked about when they got together under the
wardrobe- Or sometimes it would slip out and frisk around
on the floor—-‘‘ just playing,' as Evelyn said. 1 here was a
perfect understanding between them : Evelyn was not to hurt

the mouse nor let mammy set a trap for it) and tile mouse was
not to bite E v e ly n s clothes— but if it had to cut at all, was
to confine itself to her mamma’s. After Kittykin cam*1, how­
ever, the motise appeared to be much less sociable than for­
m erly; and after the occasion when it alarmed Kittykin so, it
did not come out again for a long time. Evelyn used to

wonder if its mamma was keeping it in.
One day, however, Evelyn was sewing, and Kittykin was
lying by, when she suddenly seemed to get tired of doing
nothing, and began to walk about.