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 said Posy, looking from the barn-cat, who watched the dead rat with so much satisfaction, to the gray kitten, who looked on from behind her, and the house-cat, who appeared at the door and looked in with great interest. The tiger-kittens came too, and were so curious they couldn't see all they wanted to without going up to the rat and smelling around him, till their mother gave a little "meaw" and drove them back. Then the house-kittens came too, and peeped around the corner.

"I'm glad he's out of the way, even if I didn't catch him myself," said the house-cat.

The barn-cat was of too generous a disposition to boast of her victory. "It doesn't make any difference who caught him, now that he is caught. What I want to see next is, these boards ripped up and the old fellow's nest examined; for I am certain my collar and Posy's necklace will be found there."