size of that crittur, will you, and the hole he's jest crawled out of.
Why, he's as big as a full-grown bat, measures full seven inches across
from wing to wing. Wal, now, I'd gin consider'ble to know what's be'n
goin' on for a spell back in that leetle house where he's passed his
time; and I'll bet, Doctor, with all your larnin', _you_ can't tell.'"




CHAPTER V.

FURRY-PURRY BECOMING GOLD ELSIE.


Miss Ruth found on her table the next Wednesday afternoon a note very
neatly and carefully written, which read as follows:--

Miss RUTH,--Will you Please tell us Another Cat Story, becaus I
like them best. So does Fannie Eldridge she said So after You told
Worm stories.

Miss Ruth I Have Named my Black Kitty After your Dinah Diamond, her
Last Name has to Be Spot Becaus her Spot is not a Diamond, this is
from your Friend.

NELLIE DIMOCK.

"I hold in my hand," Miss Ruth said, when she had carefully perused this
epistle, "a written request from two members of our Society for another
cat story. Susie and Mollie, have I any more cat stories worth telling?"