Chapter I: Front Matter

PUPPIES AND KITTENS

THE DOLLS’ DAY

BY CARINE CADBY

With 29 Illustrations by WILL CADBY

_Daily Graphic._—“Wonderland through the camera. Mrs. Carine Cadby has had the charming idea of telling in ‘The Dolls’ Day’ exactly what a little girl who was very fond of dolls dreamed that her dolls did when they had a day off. Belinda the golden-haired, and Charles the chubby, and their baby doll disappeared from their cradles while their protectress Stella was dozing. They roamed through woods and pastures new; they nearly came to disaster with a strange cat; they found a friendly Brother Rabbit and a squirrel which showed them the way home. In short, they wandered through a child’s homely fairyland and came back safely to be put to bed at night. It is a pretty phantasy, but it is given an unexpected air of reality by the very clever photographs with which Mr. Will Cadby points the moral and adorns the tale.”

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

PUPPIES AND
KITTENS

And Other Stories

BY
CARINE CADBY

Illustrated with 39 Photographs by
WILL CADBY

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE

COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

_All Rights Reserved_

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

TWO PUPPIES

I. TIM 1

II. THE PUPPIES 6

III. TIMETTE AND ANN 13

IV. DOGS AND THEIR SENSE OF SMELL 20

V. THE ADVENTURE 29

VI. THE LOST PUPPIES 36

VII. THE SEARCH PARTY 40

VIII. TIMETTE AND ANN FALL OUT 46

IX. TRAINING DOGS 52

X. THE POET DOG 54

SPIDERS AND THEIR WEBS

I. EMMA 63

II. EMMA’S WEB 66

III. A NARROW ESCAPE 74

IV. ABOUT WEBS 77

V. THE LITTLE HOUSE-SPIDER 83

VI. BABY SPIDERS 89

WHAT THE CHICKENS DID

I. JOAN AND THE CANARIES 99

II. THE WORM 106

III. JOAN SAVES A CHICKEN’S LIFE 116

IV. THIRSTY CHICKENS 123

V. THE FIGHT 126

VI. FLUFFY’S RECOVERY 133

VII. HATCHING OUT 136

THE PERSIAN KITTENS AND THEIR FRIENDS

I. TOMPKINS AND MINETTE 145

II. TWO THIEVES 152

III. MINETTE FINDS THE KITCHEN 156

IV. THE KITCHEN KITTENS 161

V. A SURPRISING CONVERSATION 167

VI. THE RETURN VISIT 175

VII. THE VISITORS’ TEA 181

VIII. SALOME TO THE RESCUE 186

IX. MISJUDGED KITTENS 189

X. SALOME GIVES A LECTURE 196

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Salome _Frontispiece_

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He would lean over the back of a chair 3

The Puppies 7

They slept and slept 11

Timette and Ann 15

“Here you see us with Papa” 21

“All the happy livelong day
We eat and sleep and laze and play” 27

“Except when only one bone’s there
And Sis takes care that I shan’t share” 31

“What a pity you should be
Such a greedy little she” 37

“This they say is not quite right,
But who can keep still in the midst of a fight?” 43

“We’re good dogs now and once more friends,”
And so my doggy story ends 49

She looked so wise and grave 55

The spider in the web 62

A beautiful regular pattern 67

A fly struggling in the web 71

A beautiful web 79

A snare 85

Spiders love fine weather 91

When anything alarming comes along they will all rush
back to Mother Hen 101

A little tapping sound 103

Dolly found a worm 107

Cheeky dashing off with the prize 109

Made them take some grain out of her hand 113

It is very funny to see chickens drink 121

They began to fight 127

He fell over and lay quite still as if he were dead 131

One had still a bit of shell sticking to his back 139

Salome 144

The two kittens arched their backs 147

Two little heads very busy with the saucer 153

Tibby was much too busy to take any notice of a
little kitten 157

They had got hold of the waste-paper basket 163

Tried to take a photograph 171

A perfect bunch of bad temper 173

“Hunt the thimble” 177

She pushed the jug over with her paw 183

Pussy pretended to be her daughter 191

“You may look little angels, but you are nothing but
little imps of mischief” 193

Sauntered grandly out of the room 197

PUPPIES AND KITTENS

TWO PUPPIES