SARAH.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14482, 1 July 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

SARAH.

—i -♦ 'A CHII/DEEN'S STORY. (By Phoebe Trelawnj Irving.) She was bom in a cellar. For weeks her mother took the greatest pleasure in playing with her, and the greatest pride in cleaning hor. But one day tile kitten mewed for her kind leather in Tain. She ran up and down t3ie cellar floor crying, but alas 1 lifer mother did not give an answering mew. AH that dov the kitten cried with hunger, fear, and cold. And then she stole up the stone steps her mother had 4013 her led out into the Great World. At the top of the stairs the kitten stopped, trembling with fear. Such sunshine hv.d never found its way into the cellar at the bottom of the stone steps. Then, er nothing happened, the lcitton crept to the open, door and peeped into nhe Great World. She saw the strangest things moving about. Enormous giants, so tall the ktt:-n fell clown trying to see the top cf them, were hurr>-iug past. One-? or twice the hungry kitten mewed, but the giants were much too busv to hear. F-arlKs to go out into' th:Great AVond alone, the kittjn turned linck. and, being very tired and frighteiic:>. she forgot h-.-w she had climbed the stone sterns and, instead of return-, ins to the cellar, clambered up the wocdvn stairs. On and on she went, stopping every now and then to cry weakly, for she began /to think she never would pot heme. And then the man who writes stor.es for children cams running id the stairs two step-, at, a time, for he had just sold a book. "Hello!" lie shouted. " Where did you come from?" The kitten raiser! her Tittle back and spat feebly, not," because she wished to Jinrt the mse, but just to show what misfit be expected if the man did not bjuire. Then, quite exhausted hv its climb, the poor little kit tumbled down two of the steps. ~ t'l? 051 * ! ' tt ' e ' w g?ar!" cried tie man. "'by. yon look starved." He picked the kitten up and carried it to the room in the rcof which lis called Honie. "I've sold a book, little black oat," be said as ho closed the door, "and there n-ro bloaters and warm milk for

He put th* tired little kitten very Stoutly or. the cushion in the old a.'-n- ' oluvr. and wh-'te he lit the fire hs told her all about the hook and the nice the publishers had said. Aral a ' en ***■ u ? listened polifelv, 1, n, ™"fd every now and then while , r ., rtri ..,,= on tV hob. . .~. . That uicdii she ptirre-d herself to s-ieejt in tli!- man's arms. Sh*> felt very, very haiv-"-. f.-r the rr.nn had a«k*c h«T\ t« «t-.v with him nlway?. And ihti Ki'ti'i hud i-i'Mwl her head arainst llis t hJ'v.^ri^n ! ;: ■=* H- •• *- ■ " ■n 'w a cat. er name :a Sarah. —" Daily News."