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Show PUSS AND THE INK "jpUSS had a pure white coat and j- she was very proud of her fine loohs, so proud that her friend Toby Lo called her vain. One day when everybody vas cut i I'uss ran upstairs and ljeran to look out for a nice soft place to twice a nap. She selected the sofa In the library, and was just about to jump up on It when something on the big desk attracted at-tracted her attention. Some one had ing her tail over her back rakishly. Then Puss sat down In front of the mirror and began to wash her face, then licked her coat and all the time she kept her eyes on the mirror, wondering won-dering why she had not found it before. be-fore. Now Toby Dog had seen Puss go upstairs, and, wondering what she was up to, he followed and arrived at the door just in time to see Puss switching switch-ing her tail in front of the mirror. Toby softly stepped back and peeked around the side of the 'door frame, and when he was tired of watching he decided he would frighten Puss and see her jump. So just as she was standing up to stretch Toby bounded into the room with a loud bark. Puss jumped and tumbled over, scratching and clawing as she tried to save herself from tumbling off the desk. When Puss tumbled over she upset the bottle of red Ink and not only did she get her feet red but the end of her tafl, and as she ran out she rubbed against Toby and daubed him red as well." When their mistress came home they were both punished for getting Into mischief. . . Puss was rather proud of her red spots; they set off her white coat. But poor Toby crawled out of sight; he was quite ashamed. "I'll keep away from her after this," he said. "She is so vain she can't see how funny she looks. Cats are of no use, anyway, only to get us dogs into trouble." (Copyright.) I 1 ( I left a plate there and I'uss thought there might be something to eat on it. But the plate was empty, and Fuss was about to jump down when she suddenly caught sight of herself in a mirror slanding on the desk. I'uss stood up and stretched herself. She turned her head to one side and then the other, while she admired her pretty self. "My tail Is much longer than the Pussy's next door," she thought, swing- |