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Helen Hunt Jackson
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Letters
from
a
Cat.
PUBLISHED
BY
HER
MISTRESS
For
the
Benefit
of
all
Cats
AND
THE
AMUSEMENT
OF
LITTLE
CHILDREN.
BY
H.
H.,
AUTHOR
OF
"NELLY'S
SILVER
MINE."
WITH
SEVENTEEN
ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
ADDIE
LEDYARD.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS
BROTHERS.
1879.
Copyright,
1879,
By
Roberts
Brothers.
INTRODUCTION.
Dear
Children:
I
do
not
feel
wholly
sure
that
my
Pussy
wrote
these
letters
herself.
They
always
came
inside
the
letters
written
to
me
by
my
mamma,
or
other
friends,
and
I
never
caught
Pussy
writing
at
any
time
when
I
was
at
home;
but
the
printing
was
pretty
bad,
and
they
were
signed
by
Pussy's
name;
and
my
mamma
always
looked
very
mysterious
when
I
asked
about
them,
as
if
there
were
some
very
great
secret
about
it
all;
so
that
until
I
grew
to
be
a
big
girl,
I
never
doubted
but
that
Pussy
printed
them
all
alone
by
herself,
after
dark.
They
were
written
when
I
was
a
very
little
girl,
and
was
away
from
home
with
my
father
on
a
journey.
We
made
this
journey
in
our
own
carriage,
and
it
was
one
of
the
pleasantest
things
that
ever
happened
to
me.
My
clothes
and
my
father's
were
packed
in
a
little
leather
valise
which
was
hung
by
straps
underneath
the
carriage,
and
went
swinging,
swinging,
back
and
forth,
as
the
wheels
went
round.
My
father
and
I
used
to
walk
up
all
the
steep
hills,
because
old
Charley,
our
horse,
was
not
very
strong;
and
I
kept
my
eyes
on
that
valise
all
the
while
I
was
walking
behind
the
carriage;
it
seemed
to
me
the
most
unsafe
way
to
carry
a
valise,
and
I
wished
very
much
that
my
best
dress
had
been
put
in
a
bundle
that
I
could
carry
in
my
lap.
This
was
the
only
drawback
on
the
pleasure
of
my
journey,--my
fear
that
the
valise
would
fall
off
when
we
did
not
know
it,
and
be
left
in
the
road,
and
then
I
should
not
have
anything
nice
to
wear
when
I
reached
my
aunt's
house.
But
the
valise
went
through
all
safe,
and
I
had
the
satisfaction
of
wearing
my
best
dress
every
afternoon
while
I
stayed;
and
I
was
foolish
enough
to
think
a
great
deal
of
this.
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