At sight of Young Grumpy her back
went up, her tail grew big as a bottle, and she spat disapprovingly. As
the stranger paid her no attention, however, she sidled cautiously up to
the milk and began to lap it.
"The sound of her lapping caught Young Grumpy's attention. It was a
seductive sound. Leaving the remains of his carrot, he came boldly up to
the saucer. The yellow cat flattened back her ears, growled, and stood
her ground till he was within a foot of her. Then, with an angry
'_pf-f-f_' she turned tail and fled. The stranger was so calmly sure of
himself that she concluded he must be some new kind of skunk--and her
respect for all skunks was something tremendous.
"Having finished the milk and the carrot, Young Grumpy felt a pressing
need of sleep. Turning his back on the Boy and the dog as if they were
not worth noticing, he ambled off along the garden fence, looking for a
convenient hole. The one-eyed gander, who had been watching him with
disfavor from the distance, saw that he was now no longer under the
protection of the white dog, and came stalking up from the other end of
the yard to have it out with him--thief of eggs and murderer of goslings
as the bird mistook him to be! But Young Grumpy, having found a
cool-looking hole under the fence, had whisked into it and vanished.
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