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D-Dra and brought to you by Rose-Scented Soap Tonight. We'll read cat-themed

stories written by English author and poet Edith Nesbett published in 1899.

Nesbett wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature

under the name E. Nesbett, along with being a political activist. This

particular collection of stories follows the lives of various cats and dogs and

will appeal to all of our animal-loving listeners.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Two clever by half. Tell us a story, mother. Set the youngest kitten but three. You've

heard all my stories. Set the mother cat, sleepily turning over in the hay. Then

make a new one. Set the youngest kitten so partly that Mrs. Buff raised her

paw to give her a swat of the ears. But she laughed too. Did you ever hear a cat

laugh? People say that cats often have occasion to do it. I do know one story, she

said, but I'm not sure that it's true. Though it was told to me by a most

respectable, brindled gentleman, a great friend of my dear mothers. He said he

was a second cousin 29 times removed of Mrs. Tabby White, the lady the story is

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