Three Little Kittens
Copyright© 2024 by Katharine Pyle
Chapter 11
It was dark; the stars were in the sky, and the fireflies were flickering among the flowers of the garden when Jazbury and Fluffy met under the rosebush again.
“Are you there, Jazbury?” mewed Fluffy.
“Yes; waiting for you. Come on!”
The two little kittens stole down the garden path to the gate, and out into the road beyond.
“Are you sure you can find the way, Jazbury?” asked Fluffy.
“Now, Fluffy, you mustn’t begin asking me that,” said Jazbury. “If I begin thinking, we’ll get lost. We’ve just got to go along the way I feel like going, and then we’ll get there.”
The kittens were silent after that. They trotted along steadily through the starlit night. They had no trouble about keeping to the road, for kittens can see just about as well in the dark as in the light.
They came to the place where the ladies had found them that day that now seemed so long ago. After a while they passed a big white gate, and a long lane leading up toward a barn. There was a farm-house on beyond the barn. They heard a dog barking there.
“Oh, Jazbury! I hope that dog won’t come and catch us,” whispered Fluffy.
“Course he won’t. He’s too far away to see us.”
The next moment the kittens stopped short, their little hearts leaping with terror. Something was moving stealthily among the weeds at the roadside. A dead twig cracked. There was a sound of breathing, and a gleam of big yellow eyes.
“What’s that, Jazbury?” whispered Fluffy.
“Hus-s-sh! I don’t know!”
There was a silence. “Jazbury, I’m scared. Let’s get away,” whispered Fluffy again.
“Hush, I tell you!”
The thing, whatever it was, was coming out from the weeds. Jazbury’s tail grew big. His fur stood on end. The next moment a well-known yowl broke the stillness.
“Yowler!” cried Jazbury.
“Yeh! Yowler,” answered that kitten, as he gave a leap out from among the weeds. “Hello, kits! I didn’t know who you were until I heard you whispering together. Where are you bound for?”
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