DICK AND HIS CAT.

An Old Tale
IN A NEW GARB.

By MARY ELLIS.

J. HAMILTON,
1344 Chestnut Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
1871.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

J. HAMILTON,

in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

A WORD TO PARENTS.

The story of “Dick Whittington and his Cat” has so often amused the little ones, who never wearied of its repetition, that the author of the following version thought she might extend the pleasure derived from it by putting it in language which they could read for themselves.

No word contains more than four letters, and none is over one syllable in length, so that any child who has the least knowledge of reading will be able to enjoy it for himself.

DICK AND HIS CAT.

Once on a time, a poor boy was seen to go up and down the side-walk of a town, and sob and cry. At last he sat down on a door-step. He was too weak to run more. He had had no food all the day. It was a day in June. The air was mild. The warm sun sent down its rays of love on all. But poor Dick had no joy on this fair day.

He laid his head down on the step, and took a nap; for he was sick and weak for want of food. As he lay, a girl came to the door. She saw the poor boy lie on the step; but he did not see her. She went in, and said to a man who was in the room, “A poor boy has lain down on our step to take a nap.”

The man came to the door to see the boy. He said, “This boy does not look nice. His hair has not seen a comb all day; his face and feet are full of dirt; and his coat is torn.”

The man did not like such a mean boy to be at his door. But when he saw the lad’s thin, pale face, as he lay at his feet, he felt sad for him.

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