Kitty's Game

Kitty walkcd slowly into a sewing room. She looked all about the room, and then sat down and began to vvash her face. "Nobody hcre," she thought to herself; "nowl will havo a nice timo." She jimiped on the tablc, looked into grandma's basket, and knoeked the spools off with her soft paw. "Oh, doar! that ball isn't here," said Kitty to herself; "I wonder where niy mistress has put it? I don't see why she won't let me p'.ay with it. She is always hiding it, but I can find it. So Kitty walkcd to the edge of tlio table, and stepped into a large standing basket. She knocked the spools about until one went over the edge and rolled across the room and under the book-case. "That's gone," said Kitty, "but no matter I want to lind the ball." She walked all round the room, jumped upon the piano, upon the book-stand, and finally back to the table. She patted all the sewing on the table, and at last turned up the edge of a pair 'of stockings, when out rolled a ball of white yarn. "There," said Kitty to herself, smiling as only kittens can, "I knew I could lind it. Now I will have some fun." She took the ball in her mouth, jumped down on the floor, and laid it gently before her. Then she walked away and sat up and looked at it. Suddenly she gave a dive at it, striking it so hard it rolled under the table. Tuis ju'st suited Kitty. She boundcd after it, knocking it around all the legs of tha table, around two or three chairs and toward the sewing-machine. Of course the yarn uriwound as the ball rolled, so all these things were tied together. Round and round the lega of the machine it went, back round the table, round every chair, in and out under the sofa, Kitty leaping and bounding after it, sometimos catching it in her teeth and sometimos toesing it up. "Oh, this is great fun!" said Kitty. "Hark, my mistress is coming and- I am tired." "Kitty. Kitty!" she called, "where are you, Kitty;-' She stopped as she saw the yarn tying nearly all the furniturc in the room j getier, and Kitty was washing her face and looking very innocent. "Oh, you naughty Kitty '." she said, "to make me so much work. I thought I hid that brJl. TKs is the second time to-day I have had to wind it up after you. If you only could, I would make you wind it up yourself." "I can't," thought Kitty, and she winked and went to sleep.-