She led him
straight to the coal-box, on which she sat until he had filled a hod
with coal. Then she led him to the wood-box, and finally back to his own
cold room.
While the fire was being made Cadi rubbed against her master's knees
with many caresses, and when at last it began to burn bright, she
stretched herself before it, contented and happy.
A mother cat will go through fire and water to save her kittens, and she
will fight most bravely to protect them. One poor cat, finding that she
could not save her baby from the flames of a burning building, went back
to die beside it, rather than escape alone.
[Illustration: FRIENDS.]
A BRAVE GIRL. [Footnote: Published by Ticknor & Fields, 1867.]
A little girl was once coming home from school across Boston Common,
when she saw a party of noisy boys and dogs tormenting a poor kitten by
the side of the frog pond. The little wretches would throw it into the
water, and then laugh at its vain and frightened efforts to paddle out,
while the dogs added to its fright by their ferocious barking. Belle was
a bright-eyed, spirited little girl, and her whole soul was roused in
indignation; she dashed in among the throng of boys and dogs, and
rescued the poor half-drowned little animal.
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