The children called them "Bob and Chloe," because the first notes of the male and female sound like those names.
One day I brought home an opossum, with her blind bare little young clinging to the droll pouch where their mothers keep them.

Sometimes we had pretty green lizards, their color darkening or deepening, like that of chameleons, in light or shade.

But the only pets that took Baby's fancy were the kittens.

They perfectly delighted her, from the first moment she saw them; they were the only things younger than herself that she had ever beheld, and the only things softer than themselves that her small hands had grasped.

It was astonishing to see how much the kittens would endure from her.