JULIA CARY
AND
HER KITTEN.
BY MRS. M. E. MILLER.
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,by the American Tract Society, in the Office of theLibrarian of Congress, at Washington.
JULIA CARY
AND
HER KITTEN.
CHAPTER I.
A SAIL.
A fine large steamboat wassailing up the Hudson riverone summer morning.
Up and down its broad decks[Pg 6]and pretty saloons skipped livelylittle Julia Cary.
“Don’t ask me to keep still,Ellen; I can’t, I am so happy,”she said.
Ellen was her nurse, who hadtaken loving care of Julia sinceshe was a baby.
She kindly went to the sideof the boat, whenever it was toland, so that the little girl mightsee a stout man ring a big bell,and other men throw ropes to[Pg 7]men on shore. These ran andthrew the ropes over huge posts,and so held the boat fast tillpeople went ashore. Then otherpeople came on the boat; thenthe ropes were drawn back, andthe boat started on again.
But Julia liked better still towander about, holding her father’shand. He could answerall her questions about thelovely shores they sailed between.He told the names of[Pg 8]the villages they passed, andshowed her the busy machinerythat sent the boat swiftly along,far away from the hot city.
“Papa,” said Julia, “are youpoor?”
“In money, child? No, no;I have more than you and Iwill spend.”
“And you are good, papa,and are not sick. What didthat lady mean when she said,‘Poor Julia! poor papa!’”
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Mr. Cary walked quickly on,leading Julia by the hand.
Down stairs, where trunksand boxes of all kinds werepiled, on their own poor luggagesat a family of Germanemigrants.
You would quickly call thempoor. Their clothes were coarse.They were eating black bread,because they could not pay fora good dinner such as Juliaand her father had.
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Two little girls and one stoutboy laughed and jabbered theirqueer talk with their motherand father. The mother helda baby on her knee—an odd-lookingfat baby, with a funnycap on its head.
Mr. Cary sat down on atrunk, at a little distance fromthem, and lifting Julia uponhis knee, he said,
“My darling will learn thatshe and I must be,