He introduced us as seriously as if the cat had been a human being . Neither Captain Kidd nor I responded very enthusiastically . `` You do n't like cats , I reckon , master , '' said Abel , stroking the Captain 's velvet back . `` I do n't blame you . I was never fond of them myself until I found the Captain . I saved his life and when you 've saved a creature 's life you 're bound to love it . It 's next thing to giving it life . There are some terrible thoughtless people in the world , master . Some of those city folks who have summer homes down the harbour are so thoughtless that they 're cruel . It 's the worst kind of cruelty , I think -- the thoughtless kind . You ca n't cope with it . They keep cats there in the summer and feed them and pet them and doll them up with ribbons and collars ; and then in the fall they go off and leave them to starve or freeze . It makes my blood boil , master . '' `` One day last winter I found a poor old mother cat dead on the shore , lying against the skin and bone bodies of her three little kittens . She had died trying to shelter them . She had her poor stiff claws around them . Master , I cried . Then I swore . Then I carried those poor little kittens home and fed ` hem up and found good homes for them . I know the woman who left the cat .
When she comes back this summer I 'm going XXXXX go down and tell her my opinion of her .
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