Page 67 - Among the camps, or, Young people's stories of the war

" Yes, for as big a fellow as you. You wouldn’t stand the
ghost of a show/ 1
“ I guess I ’d feel small enough up there,” And both

men laughed.
By this time the men 011 both sides began to come up,
with their guns over their arms.
“ Hello ! what's u p ? ” some of them called out.
" Her kitten's up," said the first two ; and, to make good
their words, Kittykin, not liking so many people below her,
shifted her position again, and went up to a fresh limb, from

which she again peeped over at them. The men all gathered
around Evelyn, and began to talk to her, and both she and
Kittykin were surprised to hear them joking and laughing
together in the friendliest way.

" W hat arc you doing out here ? ” they asked ; and to all
she made the same reply :
** I want my Kittykin.fJ
Suddenly her mamma came out. She had just gone
down-stairs, and had learned where Evelyn was* The two
officers went up and spoke to her, blit the men still crowded

around Evelyn.
“ She'll come down," said one. “ All you have to do is
to let her alone,’’
“ No, she won't. She can t come down. It makes her

head swim,” said Evelyn.
'* Thai's true,” thought Kittykin up in the tree, and to let
them understand it she gave a little Mew.”