{"product_id":"2940013693746","title":"Puss-cat Mew","description":"Every child knows the sweet nursery rhyme of \"Puss-cat Mew,\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Puss-cat Mew jumped over a coal;\u003cbr\u003eIn her best petticoat burnt a great hole;\u003cbr\u003ePuss-cat Mew shan't have any milk\u003cbr\u003eTill her best petticoat's mended with silk.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut very few children, or big people either, know _who_ Puss-cat Mew was,\u003cbr\u003eor what was the history upon which those lines were made. I do not know\u003cbr\u003ethat I should ever have found it out, only that I happened to overhear\u003cbr\u003ethe White Stable Cat talking to the Brown Kitten that lives in the\u003cbr\u003ecottage over the road. I was lying down on the croquet-ground bank,\u003cbr\u003esmoking my cigarette, and thinking of the pretty blue sky up at which I\u003cbr\u003ewas looking, and watching the fleecy white clouds that slowly followed\u003cbr\u003eeach other over the face of it, and wondering whether it would rain next\u003cbr\u003eday, or be fine and bright enough for Ned's cricket-match, when I heard\u003cbr\u003esoft voices talking near me. I raised myself on my elbow to listen, and\u003cbr\u003esoon discovered whence they came. The White Cat had got the Brown Kitten\u003cbr\u003einto the arbour between the croquet-ground and the kitchen-garden, and,\u003cbr\u003ewhilst they were watching the young robins which had just been fledged,\u003cbr\u003eand plainly expecting that one would hop within reach before long, they\u003cbr\u003ewere talking over old times and old legends, and the White Cat was\u003cbr\u003etelling the whole story about Puss-cat Mew--which by this means I am able\u003cbr\u003eto tell to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was, so she said, many years ago a worthy couple who had an only\u003cbr\u003eson, to whom they were tenderly attached. The boy grew up strong and\u003cbr\u003ehearty, and was withal of a clever turn of mind and a right cheerful\u003cbr\u003edisposition. But, somehow or other, he could never fancy his father's\u003cbr\u003etrade, which was that of a miller, and was seized with a great desire to\u003cbr\u003esee more of the world than he could do by remaining at home. His parents\u003cbr\u003edid not appear (so far as the White Cat knew) to have offered any great\u003cbr\u003eopposition to his wishes; so after the usual kissing and crying on the\u003cbr\u003epart of his mother, and good advice on the part of the honest old father,\u003cbr\u003eour young friend boldly started off on his travels.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068912222448,"sku":"2940013693746","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013693746_p0.jpg?v=1763584457","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013693746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}