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Kitty Silver sniffed "Ain't I says so to you' Aunt Julia? She done tole me, 'No,' she say She say, she say Berjuit sooin' to bathe 'eht to know their na You can't do much with an animal unless you know their name Did Aunt Julia tell you these cats' names, Kitty Silver?"

"She say they name Feef an' Meemuh Yes'm! Feef an' Meemuh! Whut kine o' name is Feef an' Meemuh fer cat name!"

"Oh, those are lovely na to Herbert, explained: "She means Fifi and Mimi"

"Feef an' Meemuh," said Kitty Silver "The-hair cats don' suit me neither" Here she lifted the cover of the basket a little, and gazed nervously within "Look at there!" she said "Look at the way they lookin' at me! Don't you look at me thataway, you Feef an' Meemuh!" She clapped the lid down and fastened it "Fixin' to juuess, o ask Aunt Julia if I and Herbert can't wash 'eo ask her anyhow" And she ran up the steps and skipped into the house by way of the kitchen A moment later she appeared in the open doorway of a room upstairs