The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales

Project Gutenberg's The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales, by Amy Walton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales Author: Amy Walton Illustrator: Warwick Goble Release Date: October 20, 2007 [EBook #23112] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KITCHEN CAT, AND OTHER TALES *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England Amy Walton "The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales" Chapter One. The Visitor from the Cellar. The whole house in London was dull and gloomy, its lofty rooms and staircases were filled with a sort of misty twilight all day, and the sun very seldom looked in at its windows. Ruth Lorimer thought, however, that the very dullest room of all was the nursery, in which she had to pass so much of her time. It was so high up that the people and carts and horses in the street below looked like toys. She could not even see these properly, because there were iron bars to prevent her from stretching her head out too far, so that all she could do was to look straight across to the row of tall houses opposite, or up at the sky between the chimney- pots. How she longed for something different to look at!