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 they could only agree together for one to watch at each end, they'd catch him fast enough."

"There'll be trouble as long as he lives," sighed the canary. "Posy said Michael was going to set a trap for him."

"Much good that will do," replied Mrs. Polly scornfully; "he's too old a head to walk into a trap."

All this time the barn-cat and the house-cat had been devoting all their energies to catching Graywhisker. It was very seldom that either one or the other was not in the way when he attempted to venture out; and the barn-cat set the gray kitten and the little tiger-kittens to watch when she could not.

The gray kitten had grown stronger than she was when she first came to live there, and the young tiger-kittens considered themselves a match even for Graywhisker. As for poor little Mrs. Silverskin, she dared not