KITTENS
David Pritchard translation
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
GRIM: The Story
of a Pike
Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop
“Will surely become an animal classic in the same class as
Black Beauty
, the
Jungle Books
and the stories of Ernest Thompson Seton.”
—The Baltimore Sun.
“
Grim
is delightful.”
—New York Globe.
$2.00 net at all bookshops
NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF
Kittens: A Family Chronicle
Translated from the Danish of
Svend Fleuron
by David Pritchard
Foreword by Carl Van Vechten
New York Mcmxxii
Alfred · A · Knopf
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY SVEND FLEURON
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published, January, 1922
Original Title: Killingerne: en Familiekrenike
Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y. Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
“The other farm cats’ kittens were born in barn and loft and were drowned litter after litter—but she would see that her kittens grew to be cats!”