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 kitten a comfortable home, and make her as happy as if she were not blind."

"But it makes me feel bad to think her can't see," said Posy, sobbing.

"Think, my darling, how much more comfortable you can make her than she has ever been before; and perhaps it is not so bad as you think,—she may not be wholly blind."

So Mamma put down her sewing, and went with Posy to look at the little gray kitten, who all this time had been purring away contentedly in Tom's lap.

"Oh no," said Mamma, "she isn't wholly blind, she can see out of one eye; and we will bathe her eyes with some warm water and a soft sponge, and she will feel as comfortable as possible."

"I knew how it would be," said the parrot to the canary, as the kitten was carried off to the kitchen to be fed.

"Kind people, every one of them," an