The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

First published in 1890, this work is a short story collection by Amy Walton. It is both touching, droll and delightful, with the bond between children and animals as a special theme between the three stories The Kitchen Cat, Sarah's Sunday Out and The Toad in the Hole. "The whole house in London was dull and gloomy, its lofty rooms and staircases were filled with a sort of misty twilight all day, and the sun very seldom looked in at its windows. Ruth Lorimer thought, however, that the very...