Dick and His Cat

A hungry six-year-old lies asleep on a stranger’s doorstep. When Dick wakes, his first question is heartbreaking: where has his mother gone?

In a town on a warm June day, orphaned Dick is taken in by a working man, but the man’s daughter gives him little kindness and little reason to trust anyone. A gray stray becomes Dick’s one friend; then a bell’s insistent call and the memory of his mother’s last prayer make him face the harm in his own choices. When a sailor offers to take the cat on a voyage to a far-off land, Dick must part with the companion who has helped him find his way. What might become of a boy and a cat sent on separate paths?

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