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So a blue kitten is like a knight, a small knight sent forth Then it is said, the very days of the land itself are numbered. Yet such folk must be found at least once in a blue moon.įor if the river's song rise no longer from the hearthside,
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And mortals who have ears to hear and hearts to Not only must the kitten who sings the river's songįind a hearth to fit that song, but he must teach the keeper For every kitten must find a hearth to fit his song.īut a kitten who listens to the river and learns the river's For, like all cats, she had heard that a blue kittenĪny kitten has a hard enough time to find a home for The mother cat had been quite upset when she first saw It was the end of theįirst third of the nineteenth century, or more than a hundred years ago, which is a very long time indeed. Which his mother had made for him at the foot of a forgotten haycock in a Vermont meadow. Nest of dried clover, Queen Anne's lace and chickory, T HE blue kitten was born under a blue moon in a warm No one knows why the word Castle was chosen as the name for the Town. H OW THE B LUE C AT OF C ASTLE T OWN C AME T O B E W RITTEN 121 S EVEN T HOMAS R OYAL D AKE, THE C ARPENTER 83 S IX T HE B ARN C AT OF S YLVANUS G UERNSEY 71
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T HREE E BENEZER S OUTHMAYD, THE P EWTERER 23į IVE A RUNAH H YDE AND THE D ARK S PELL 57 Y.ĬONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE O NE T HE B LUE C AT OF C ASTLE T OWN 1 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA BY THIS BOOK, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IN ANY FORM A Celebration of Women Writers The Blue Cat of Castle TownĪLL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE