The Cat and the Captain

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The Cat
and
the Captain

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The Little Library

For 4-6 Year Olds A Child's Garden of Verses Little Jack Rabbit A Visit from St. Nicholas Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats Sing-Song and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti The Little Wooden Doll A Baby's Life of Jesus Christ Charlie and His Kitten Topsy For 6-8 Year Olds The Cat and The Captain Charlie and His Friends The Little Children's Bible The Light Princess The King of the Golden River Silver Pennies A Dog of Flanders The Pope's Mule Memoirs of A Donkey The Peep-Show Man The Peter Pan Picture Book Memoirs of A London Doll The Little Lame Prince The Adventures of A Brownie Goody Two Shoes The Magic Forest Susanna's Auction For 8-10 Year Olds The Good-Natured Bear The Merry Pilgrimage The Sons of Kai The Rose and The Ring King Penguin—A Legend of the South Seas

The Macmillan Company

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The Cat and the Captain

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The Cat
and
The Captain

 

By
Elizabeth Coatsworth

 

Illustrated by
Gertrude Kaye

 

New York
The Macmillan Company
1927
All rights reserved

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Copyright, 1927,
By The Macmillan Company.

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Set up and electrotyped.
Published, September, 1927

 

Printed in the United States of America by
The Ferris Printing Company, New York

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To
Louise Seaman,
The Cat's Godmother,
and
Margaret Smith
and the Cats of Lincoln Street

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Contents

Chapter		Page
I	The Cat was furious	1
II	A good Cat at heart	9
III	The face at the window	19
IV	One day on the Lively Ann	31
V	Every fine morning	41
VI	"Dere's trouble comin'"	53
VII	Sh! What's that?	67
VIII	The Cat's first party	73
IX	"This Cat saved us"	85

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Illustrations

 

The Cat and the Captain		Frontispiece
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The Cat dropped the mouse at Susannah's feetfacing		16
The Captain tried to reach the Cat under the sofa		25
He grabbed the Cat by the scruff of the neck		37
The Cat lay on a pile of rope		47
The Cat scooped one paw into the bowl		63
Cream from the brown cow's mouth		79
The Captain picked up his canefacing		92

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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The longest-living author of this work died in 1986, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 37 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.