The Dinner Bell


It is customary in large boarding-houses to announce the dinner-hour by

the sound of a bell. A cat belonging to one of these houses always

hastened to the hall on hearing the bell, to get its accustomed meal; but

it happened one day that she was shut up in a chamber, and it was in vain

for her that the bell had sounded. Some hours after, having been released

from her confinement, she hastened to the hall, but found nothing left for

her. The cat thus disappointed got to the bell, and sounding it,

endeavoured to summon the family to a second dinner, in which she doubted

not to participate.



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