Show CAT AND DOG lie he wits was a very little dog doe slid and he w was its playful and friendly and cunning ue ile lived live in a big house bouse but the house to him seemed even bigger than it was that was because lie be was such snell a tiny dog and everything seemed so new to I 1 him bin still I 1 lie ile had not been in th the e world so 00 very very long lie lit was nus riot not really old fit at all no he was still what everyone c called a I 1 I 1 e of they both be a puppy a baby longed to a girl floo dog lie ile would never grow to be very big but he would be larger than he be now was they had find all said that in the he house lived a cat the cat was a very big cut cat and she was quite au all old cat too As soon as the little dog had been brought to llie file house the cat lind had taken a great interest in him it Is not often that eats cats and dogs are friendly but of course now and again they are particularly if they have been brought brou glit up together they both belonged to a little girl named ilisabeth Ill Mi sabeth whom they loved dearly the cat loved her more than the dog did tile the eat cat thought as she had been with will elisabeth longer and knew tier her better and so loved her more cut but the dog was very ery devoted to elisabeth too the do dogs s name was soft as he be was such a little soft cunning dog and the cats name was nurse she had been called sirs mrs cat for a along long time but after soft had been brought to the house her name was changed to nurse that was because she looked after soft and took charge of him and saw that lie he did not get into mischief soft was very fond of getting into mischief there was nothing he be liked bettor better than a pair of new bedroom slippers or the end of a ru rug such things were delightful playthings nut but nurse used to follow him about aboul and give him a little slap with her paw when lie began to do things she knew he do sometimes when soft had been missing for some time nurse knew he be must tie he up to something as tile ali saying was particularly since he hot hal been quiet she would go oft hunting for hirr then thell once in a valle nurse felt lealou ahen they petted soft too much it was not because site she wool soft to in he be petted but she aarif wan to lie forgotten anil when soft was being petted by everyone and no one petted her slit site would raise up her back and stand in front of the people who had been petting soft and the expression of tier her back seemed to say very clearly why this Is very st strange rangel im a pet too cantine cant Can tIbe I 1 be petted also just because iro im grown up y you ou think I 1 do not want affection and then nurse would be petted of course and they would say why nu nurse arse we mean incon to forget you we love you nurse would feel better then and she would purr and slie she would not raise her back any more yes no two animals could have been more friendly nothing he liked than soft and better nurse life was cry pleasant for them rIL riki sabeth abeth lo luied loed ed them and they loved her her friends were so nice to them too the food was good and the house was comfortable und the petting was something neither they nor their mis tress nor her friends tired of giving them which was best of all |