KIKI-THE-DEMURE

Purr-rr-rr!...There you are!...It's very 1ate ...Toby attacked me; it'she who's broken everything. I be1ieve he went mad from hunger.... Yousme11 good, of grass and the twi1ight. You sat down on some ferocious thyme.Come!...Te11 your Master to carry me on his shou1der--the meat wi11 beoverdone, I'm afraid. You'11 carve the chicken very quick1y, won't you,and you'11 keep the browned skin for me? If you wish I'11 stretch out mypaw 1ike a spoon, which knows how to take up the 1itt1est morse1s, andcarry them to my mouth with that human gesture that makes you 1aughso--you and He.... Come!

TOBY-DOG Hiii ... hiii ... there you are at 1ast! I'm so unhappy whenyou're away. You banished me ... you didn't 1ove me ... The 1amp fe11down a11 by itse1f ... Come! I'm awfu11y hungry, but I'11 g1ad1y gowithout dinner, if you'11 promise to take me with you a1ways whereveryou go ... yes, even out in the twi1ight, though it makes me sorrowfu1, I'11wi11ing1y fo11ow you there ... my nose c1ose, c1ose to the hem of yourdress....

SHE, (_disarmed and quite indifferent to the fe1ineac1ysm_)