{"id":2147,"date":"2008-09-11T22:25:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T03:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.danphilibin.com\/wordpress\/?p=63"},"modified":"2023-05-26T05:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:13:50","slug":"the-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eclearnings.com\/the-kitten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Kitten.<\/h3>\n<p>One day Jacob was outside looking at his dog. As it happens, he heard a meow, meow. \u201cWhat was that?\u201d he asked his dog. He looked at his feet and there was a little kitten. It was red. \u201cThere is a red kitten by my feet,\u201d said Jacob. He took the kitten inside. \u201cMom, look at this red kitten,\u201d said Jacob to his mother. His mother looked at the kitten. \u201cJacob, I think you need the magic nickel. This kitten needs to be black and not red,\u201d said Jacob\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK,\u201d said Jacob, and he put the magic nickel in his hand. \u201cBlack, black, black\u201d. Poof! The kitten was black. \u201cThat is better,\u201d said Jacob\u2019s mother, and she went away. The kitten did look better. \u201cI think you need to be bigger, too,\u201d said Jacob to the kitten. \u201cMeow,\u201d said the kitten. Jacob took the magic nickel and said, \u201cBigger, bigger, bigger.\u201d Poof! The kitten began to get bigger and bigger.<\/p>\n<div>It got bigger and bigger. Soon it was bigger than a cat. \u201cStop getting bigger,\u201d said Jacob to the kitten. The kitten did not stop. It got bigger and bigger. Soon it was bigger than Jacob\u2019s dog. It kept getting bigger and bigger. Soon it was bigger than Jacob. Then in a wink, the kitten was as big as the room. The kitten stopped getting bigger, but Jacob was stuck by the big kitten to the wall of the room. Jacob could not think of what to do. The kitten then began to get red. In a wink, there was a red kitten as big as a room, and there was Jacob stuck to the wall of the room by this big red kitten.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jacob could still not think of what to do so he said to the kitten, \u201cWhy are you so big and red?\u201d The big red kitten looked at Jacob. It then said, \u201cI am not an earth kitten. I am a kitten from space.<\/div>\n<div>I can be big or I can be small.\u201d Jacob was shocked. \u201cCan you be small so I can get away from this wall?\u201d \u201cOK,\u201d said the big red kitten. Poof! The kitten was small and red. \u201cThanks,\u201d said Jacob.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The red kitten and Jacob went outside. It took him to its space ship. It was a neat space ship. \u201cI need to go,\u201d said the red kitten. It got into its space ship and went up into the sky. It then went<\/p>\n<p>away. Jacob did not ever see a red kitten again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to This<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"The Kitten. One day Jacob was outside looking at his dog. As it happens, he heard a meow, meow. \u201cWhat was that?\u201d he asked his dog. He looked at his feet and there was a little kitten. It was red. \u201cThere is a red kitten by my feet,\u201d said Jacob. He took the kitten inside. \u201cMom, look at this red kitten,\u201d said Jacob to his mother. His mother looked at the kitten. \u201cJacob, I think you need the magic nickel. 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