Let’s read together: Country cat by Elizabeth Coatsworth

“Where are you going, Mrs. Cat,
All by your lonesome lone?”
“Hunting a mouse, or maybe a rat
Where the ditches are overgrown.”

“But you’re very far from your house and home,
You’ve come a long, long way”
“The further I wander, the longer I roam
The more I find mice at play.”

“But you’re very near to the dark pinewood.
And foxes go hunting too.”
“I know that a fox might find me good,
But what is a cat to do?

“I have my kittens who must be fed,
I can’t have them skin and bone!”
And Mrs. Cat shook her brindled head
And went off by her lonesome lone.