Why, that's just the very thing I wanted! Where did you get it, Gilbert, dear ?" "From the milkman," said Gilbert proudly.

"We always get kitties from him, and I telled him to pick out a nice pretty one for you.

Do you like it ?" "I love it," said Patty, cuddling the little bunch of grey fur; "and Pudgy is just the right name for it.

It's the fattest little cat I ever saw." "Yes," said Gilbert gravely; "don't let it get thin, will you ?" "No, indeed," said Patty; "I'll feed it on strawberries and cream all the year round!" That same afternoon Patty and Aunt Alice started out on a cook-hunting expedition.

A Cook's Tour, Frank called it; and the tourists took it very seriously.
"Much of the success of your home, Patty," said Aunt Alice, as they were going to the Intelligence Office, "depends upon your cook; for she will be not only a cook, but, in part, housekeeper, and overseer of the whole place.