# Mammy's baby

Author: Blanchard, Amy Ella, 1856-1926; Waugh, Ida, 1846-1919 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72695

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Mammy%27s+baby+Blanchard&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Two little kittens, quite aristocratic, Lived in a rummagy, cobwebbed attic. They were no commonplace cats, if you please, But sleek-coated, fine-furred, thorough Maltese. Said one to the other, “It is a shame That we two kittens have never a name. We belong to no one, none belongs to us, Though I’ve heard some call our mother ‘Ma’am Puss.’” “Hark!” said the other, “here mother comes now. We’ll both of us set up a dismal meow. If she boxes our ears, or gives a cuff, Or asks if we haven’t had food enough, We’ll tell her our grief is deeper than that, We think it a shame that so proud a cat Should have two children with no names, at all. And then we will mew and cat-er-waul, Till she tells...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mammy-s-baby-72695/chapters/1/index.md)