elizabeth in the morning

from a vintage schoolbook....

"Purring and sleeping and loving all day, 

Cat and the kitty-cats passed time away; 

Cat was the luckiest mother, and how 

She told all the world in a glad " Mee-ow." "

 - "The Cat Family," The American Teacher (New-England Publishing Company, 1891), vol. 8, p. 188.