stealing in a dwelling-house.

The case was briefly this: Juno had opened so detestable an overture of howling on her master's departure for the forest, that the people at the Double-barrelled Gun, out of mere consideration for the city of B----, had found it necessary to set her at liberty; whereupon, as if the devil drove her, forthwith the brute had gone off in search of her old young enemy the kitten, at the hotel of the princess.

She beat up the kitten's quarters again; and again she drove in the enemy pell-mell into her camp in the kitchen.

The young mistress of the kitten, out of her wits at seeing her darling's danger, had set down a pail of milk, in which she was washing a Brussels' veil and a quantity of Mechlin lace belonging to the princess--and hurried her kitten into a closet.

In a moment she returned, and found--milk, Brussels' veil, Mechlin lace, vanished--evaporated into Juno's throat, 'abiit--evasit--excessit--erupit!' only the milk-pail, upon some punctilio of delicacy in Juno, was still there; and Juno herself stood by, complacently licking her milky lips, and expressing a lively satisfaction with the texture of Flanders' manufactures.