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Agnete a minute’s rest or peace, and so, as you
knoAV, I got the eat.
Strangely enough, Mother was not in the
least overjoyed when I came back carrying the
forest-cat.
“ I don’t like these presents,” said Mother.
“ There will only he tears and heartbreak when
you have to leave them.”
“ Leave them! ” exclaimed Karsten and I in
one breath. “ Oh, but you know they must go
l)ack home with us! ”
“ The goat is so smart about going up and
down stairs,” said Karsten. “And it likes to
drink out of a teacup and it can perf eetly well
stay in the hotel garden over night in the city.”
“Are you crazy, you two?” said Mother.
“ It would never do in the world.”
But we teased and begged so, that Mother
finally said yes—we might take them. For
the potato-cellar was full of rats, she said, that
the cat might take care of; and you could
al-ways get rid of a goat in our town. And I
promised that I would hold on to the cat
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