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Pussy and Doggy Tales, by Edith Nesbit
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Title: Pussy and Doggy Tales
Author: Edith Nesbit
Illustrator: L. Kemp-Welch
Release Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #27190]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Pussy and Doggy Tales
Pussy and Doggy Tales
By E. Nesbit
With Illustrations by L. Kemp-Welch
London J. M. Dent & Co. Aldine House 29 & 30 Bedford Street 1899 W.C.
Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press
Contents
Pussy Tales
PAGE TOO CLEVER BY HALF 3
THE WHITE PERSIAN 16
A POWERFUL FRIEND 26
A SILLY QUESTION 40
THE SELFISH PUSSY 47
MEDDLESOME PUSSY 54
NINE LIVES 62
Doggy Tales
PAGE TINKER 79
RATS! 95
THE TABLES TURNED 100
A NOBLE DOG 108
THE DYER'S DOG 114
THE VAIN SETTER 123
List of Illustrations
PAGE "I may have no nose, old man, but I smell rats" Frontispiece
Page 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 muc