PARTNERSHIP.

YOU need not be looking around at me so; She’s my kitten as much as your kitten, you know, And I’ll take her wherever I wish her to go. You know very well that the day she was found, If I hadn’t cried she’d surely been drowned, And you ought to be thankful she’s here safe and sound. She’s only just crying because she’s a goose; I’m not squeezing her—look now—my hands are quite loose, You may as well hush, for it’s not any use. And you may as well get right down and go ’way, You’re not in the thing we are going to play, And remember it isn’t your half the day. You’re forgetting the bargain we made, and so soon; In the morning she’s mine, and yours all afternoon, And you couldn’t teach her to eat with a spoon. So don’t let me hear you give one single mew, For you know what will happen right off if you do, She’ll be my kitten mornings and afternoons, too.