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BeverlyCleary Socks illustrate d by Tracy Dockray viii Contents 1. The Kitten Sale 1 2. The Brickers Other Pet 23 3. Socks and the Formula 45 4. The Evening the Sitter Came 63 5. A Visit from Nana 83 6. Old Taylor 104 7. Socks and Charles William 122 About the Author Other Books by Beverly Cleary Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher viii 1 The Kitten Sale The tabby kitten hooked his white paws over the edge of the box marked, Kittens 25¢ or Best Offer. The girl with the stringy hair and sunburned arms picked him up and set him down in the midst of his wiggling, crawling, mewing brothers and sisters. He wanted to get out; she wanted him to stay in. The puzzling struggle had gone on all morning in the space between the mailbox and the newspaper rack near 1 the door of the supermarket. Nice fresh kittens for sale, called out the girl, whose name was Debbie. She usu-ally held the kitten in her arms, and he expected her to hold him now. Stupid, said her brother George, embarrassed to be selling kittens with his younger sister on a summer morning. Whoever heard of fresh kittens? Me, said Debbie, as she pushed the kitten down once more. Then she repeated at the top of her voice, Nice fresh kittens for sale. She knew she was not stupid, and she enjoyed annoying her brother. The two had quarreled at breakfast. George said Debbie should sell the kittens, because she played with them and that made them hers. Debbie said George should sell the kittens, because she didnt know how to make change. Besides, he was the one who had brought the mother home when she was a 2 kitten, so that made her kittens his.Their father said, Stop bickering, you two.You can both sell them,and that was that. The white-pawed kitten, unaware of the hard feelings between brother and sister, tried again. He stepped on another kitten and this 3time managed to lift his chin over the rim of the carton. His surprised blue eyes took in a parking lot full of shoppers pu