The family had returned from the summer sea-side absence and father was being questioned a how he had endured the days of, solitude, This naturally Jed on to behaviour of the cats (with: which this particular household rather richly endowed) and pecially of one Budge, a most. friendly beast, who trade blushingly on his personal tractions for his own advantage, but so nicely that one does not mind being twisted round his little: white paw. "And what about, Santly?" asked Evelyn—Santly, it should be explained, is an ancient] and very dignified cat, who really only suffers approach by the master of the house and not too much of that—""does he still sit on the gatepost and swear at you when you Dull his tail?" Elizabeth, aged 11, must have been musing—at least! one hopes that the remark which now came from her, immediately following her sister's, referred to Budge's friendliness and not to Santly's swearing: "How Daddy. It must be just having Mummy with you!"
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