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I have another story from a good authority which is still more in favor of poor pussy, and puts her upon a par with the most faithful dog. 

During a hard snow storm last winter, a kitten with a broken leg and almost frozen hopped into the hall door of a gentleman’s house in Brooklyn, New York, and set up a most piteous mewing. 

The master of the house ordered the servants to throw the kitten into the street, when his little daughter, a child eight years of age, caught up the poor little creature, and begged to be allowed to keep and nurse it. The father, at first, refused. The child, however, begged so earnestly that he at last allowed her to keep the kitten. 

The little girl, whom we will call Emma, nursed her pet until it got quite well. The kitten returned, in full measure, all the love of her gentle nurse, and was never quite happy away from little Emma…

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