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 my kittens, of course, but I've a great mind to keep you and see what you'll make if you are properly brought up."

She didn't like to show the kitten that she was watching her, for it might make her vain; so she pretended to be looking very intently at something out in the yard and gently moved the tip of her tail, but she looked out of the corners of her eyes and saw the little house-kitten at once try to catch it.

"Pretty well," she said to herself, "considering you've never had any instruction. When you're a little older I'll teach you how to crouch and spring, the way I do my own kittens."

Now that the barn-cat had decided to keep the house-kitten, she set about washing it; for Posy had dipped its head so far into the milk-pitcher that it presented a very untidy appearance.

She washed if in a most thorough man