Article February 13, 1960 Issue

PAUL'S FIRST KITTEN

[Of Special Interest to Children]

ELIZABETH GAYLORD RICE

One Sunday Paul and his mother drove out into the country to get a little kitten who was just six weeks old. The kitten had four white paws and big splotches of black and yellow on her white body. The owners called her a calico kitten, but "calico" meant something very ordinary to Paul. So he said to his mother, "I'm going to call her Venus, because she's so beautiful."

But the little kitten was frightened when she got to her new home and ran out of the house when no one was watching. All that Sunday afternoon Paul and his mother looked for Venus, but she was nowhere to be found. None of the neighbors knew about her, and of course she didn't know her new home and neighborhood.

When it came time for Paul to go upstairs to bed, he was very sad. This was the first kitten he had ever owned, and now it was gone. He said to his mother, "We've just got to get Venus back!"

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