A brother and a sister named Vasya and Katya once had a cat. One spring day, the cat disappeared. The Children looked for it everywhere, but could not find it.
Many days later, when they were playing near a barn, they heard some tiny meows. Vasya climbed up the ladder, that led to the barn's loft as Katya stood below.
Then Vasya shouted excitedly, "I found our cat! And she has five cute kittens."
Katya ran home, and got some milk for the cat. As the kittens grew, they came out of the barn. The children chose a gray kitten with white paws as their pet, and took it home. The children fed the kitten, played with it, and let it sleep on their beds.
One day, the children went out to play on the road and took the kitten along.
The wind was blowing bits of straw along the road. The kitten played with the straw, and the children laughed as they watched it. Then they saw some flowers growing by the roadside. They went off to pick them, and forgot all about the kitten.
Suddenly, they heard someone shouting, "Go back!" They saw the hunter riding towards them, with his two dogs running ahead. The dogs had spotted the kitten, and wanted to catch it. The silly kitten crouched, and stared at the dogs instead of running away.
Katya was afraid of the dogs, and she screamed and ran away. But Vasya bravely ran towards the kitten. He reached it just as the dogs did, and he covered the tiny kitten with his body. Then the hunter came galloping up and chased off his dogs. Vasya brought the kitten home and never took it out to the fields again.
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