The rain had just stopped. I went ___1___
into the garden. Then I heard a soft mewing. I saw a little
white kitten. It was so thin that its bones were showing. It was
wet and shivering. I brought it ___2___
the house and fried it. My brother came ___3___
. "Do you know who this kitten belongs ___4___
?" I asked him.
My brother said he had seen some kittens ___5___
the long grass
___6___ our house. The
mother cat was just a stray. He told me to give the kitten some
fish.
There was no more fish, so I took some rice and gave it to
the kitten. But it would not eat the rice.
"I wonder if it's old enough to eat rice. It may still be
feeding ___7___
its mother's milk," said my brother.
I warmed ___8___ some
milk and gave it to the kitten but it would not drink the milk.
"I wonder if I should give it back to its mother," I said.
"Yes, you'd better do that," said my brother.
My brother and I carried the kitten ___9___
of the house. We heard loud mewing. It was the mother cat. I put
the kitten ___10___. It
mewed loudly but stayed still. The mother cat ran quickly to the
little kitten. It started licking the kitten all ___11___.
The kitten kept mewing loudly.
"Do you think it's telling its mother ___12___
me ?" I asked my brother. |