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In a strange house anything might happen.
TheCATinGRANDFATHER'S HOUSE
by
CARL GRABO
illustrated by
M. F. ISERMAN
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
LAIDLAW BROTHERS
Copyright, 1929
By LAIDLAW BROTHERS
Incorporated
All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
It is peculiarly fitting in this day of delightful juveniles that an author of many books on the technique of writing should turn his pen to the writing of this child's book.
Carl Grabo, with whose name "The Art of the Short Story" is at once associated, has written this whimsical and imaginative tale of Hortense and the Cat. Antique furniture, literally stuffed with personality, hurries about in the dim moonlight in order to help Hortense through a thrillingly strange campaign against a sinister Cat and a villainous Grater. The book offers rare humor, irresistible alike to grown-ups and children.
It is a book that will stimulate the imagination of the most prosaic child—or at least give it exercise! Wonder, the most fertile awakener of intelligence, and vision are closely akin to imagination, and both are greatly needed in this work-a-day world.
Each reader, a child at heart be he seven or seventy, will bubble with the glee of childhood at all its quaint imaginings. They are so real that they seem to be true.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | "... going to the big house to live" | 9 |
| II. | "And the darker the room grew, the more it seemed alive" | 20 |
| III. | "They could hear the soft pat-pat of padded feet in the hall" | 31 |
| IV. | "Highboy, and Low ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |