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This is my father's Dragon by Ruth Styles Gannett, part one of three.

Chapter 1. My Father meets the Cat. One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy he met an old cat on his street.

The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said,

wouldn't you like to come home with me? This surprised the cat. She had never

before met anyone who cared about old alley cats. But she said, I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace and perhaps have a saucer of milk.

We have a very nice furnace to sit by, said my father, and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk.

My father and the cat became good friends, but my father's mother was very upset about the cat.

She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats.

Elmer elevator, she said to my father.

If you think I'm going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you're very wrong.

Once you start feeding stray alley cats you might as well expect to

feed every stray in town and I am not going to do it. This made my father very

sad and he apologized to the cat because his mother had been so rude.

He told the cat to stay anyway and that somehow he would bring her a saucer of milk each day.

My father fed the cat for three weeks,

but one day his mother found the cat saucer in the cellar

and she was extremely angry. She whipped my father and threw

the cat out the door. But later on my father sneaked out and found the cat. Together they went for a walk in the park and tried

to think of nice things to talk about. My father said, when I grow up, I'm going to have an airplane.

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