HOW PUSSY WAS SAVED A WHIPPING

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 14 November 1907, Page 37

HOW PUSSY WAS SAVED A WHIPPING

Dear pussy, I love you, an' I's your true friend, 'Cause 1 saved you a whippin' to-day When cook missed her custard, and everyone said ft was puss that stealed it away. You know- you are naughty sometimes, pussy, dear, So in course you get blanred, an' all that ! An' cook took a stick, and she 'clared she would beat The thief out of that mizzable cat. But I didn't feel conifortb'le down in my heart, So I saved you the whippin', you see, 'Cause I went to mamma, an' telled I 'spect She'd .better tell cook to whip me. 'Cause the custard was stealed by a bad little girl, Who felt Sreffly sorry with shame ! An' if wouldn't be fair to whip pussy, in course, When that bad little girl was to blame ! ' Was it my' little girlie ? ' -my dear mamma said, I felt dreffly scared, but I nodded my head, ! An 1 then mamma 'laughed, ' Go find nurse, for I guess There's some custard to wash off a little girl's dress.' When, then, 'course they knew it was I, an' not you.