"Yes, indeed," said mamma; "and I wonder if there was ever a family of
kits before that had two mothers at the same time!"




TOPSY STORIES.

IV. TOPSY'S HIDING PLACE.

All around the kitchen they went, playing hide and seek. Topsy hid
under the stove, Alice hid in the cupboard; Topsy hid behind the wood
box, Alice hid under the table; Topsy hid in the corner back of the
coal hod, Alice hid in the folds of mamma's big apron hanging behind
the kitchen door; but they never failed to find each other and always
had a great frolic after each one's hiding place was discovered.

At last the play was over and Topsy went fast asleep, lying on her back
in the doll's cradle. She looked very funny, with her paws sticking
straight up in the air.

Soon Alice wanted to put dolly to bed; so Topsy found another nice
resting place, stretched out in mamma's workbasket, with her front paws
lying on the pincushion; but when mamma came for thimble and thread
kitty was forced to move again.

"Meow! meow!" she said. "I will get out of every one's way, and go
where I can sleep as long as I please without being disturbed!" So
Topsy sprang upon the table, then upon a tall folded screen near by,