Could I, if I went to that place ?" "She's dead.

All my folks are," said Dan, briefly.
"I'm sorry;" and Demi sat silent a minute, wondering what subject would be safe to try next.

He felt delicate about speaking of the departed lady, but was very curious about the cats, and could not resist asking softly, "Did she cure the sick ones ?" "Sometimes.

One had a broken leg, and she tied it up to a stick, and it got well; and another had fits, and she doctored it with yarbs till it was cured.

But some of 'em died, and she buried 'em; and when they couldn't get well, she killed 'em easy." "How ?" asked Demi, feeling that there was a peculiar charm about this old woman, and some sort of joke about the cats, because Dan was smiling to himself.
"A kind lady, who was fond of cats, told her how, and gave her some stuff, and sent all her own pussies to be killed that way.