Karen's Kittycat Club Page #2

Karen wants to start her own club! Karen's best friend Hannie just got an adorable new kitten. Their neighbor Amanda has a cat, too, and Karen has grumpy old Boo-Boo. Now that they all have cats, Karen comes up with a great idea. She wants to start a Kittycat Club! What will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like her big sister Kristy... but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want to hire Karen and her friends?

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Karen: That's neat.

"KA—RUNCH!!"

Karen & Kristy: He he he!

Karen: Moosie, Moosie! We have so much to do! Let's get to work.

Karen: We're going to make two invitations. One for Hannie and one for Amanda.
Kristy didn't say anything about invitations, but I think they'll be nice.
Don't you think so, too?

Karen: Okay, let me think. Hmm… it doesn't sound right. Or look right, either.

Karen: Look at this, Moosie. What did I do wrong? Maybe I spelled "your" wrong. Maybe it needs one of those high-up commas.

I don't know, Moosie.
This still isn't right.

It doesn't sound like one of the birthday party invitations that comes in the mail. 

Karen: Those always start with, "Join the fun!" Then they say, "Come to a birthday party." And then they say where the party will be when.

Oops. Yellow doesn't show up very well.

Karen: Do you think Hannie and Amanda will know that "my house" means Karen Brewer's House? And that time looks funny. How do you write "three o'clock"?

Karen: I guess there's nothing left to do but ask Daddy. There. All done!

All done. My invitations have been delivered.

Chapter 4:

Karen: Boo-Boo! Where are you? It's almost time for the Kittycat Club.

Karen: I wish I had a nice cat like Pat. Or a beautiful cat like Priscilla.

Karen: Oh, there you are.
But I don't.

I have Boo-Boo. At least he is a cat. Without him, I could not be in my own Kittycat Club.

Karen: Come on Boo-Boo.
New we have to wait for everyone else to --

*Knock! Knock!*

Karen: Oh, goody! Who is it?

Amanda: It's Hannie and Pat!

Karen: Come on in to the Kittycat Club!

Poor Pat!

Amanda: Nice Priscilla, good Priscilla.

Karen: Amanda's here.

Hannie: Hooray.

Amanda is nice, and Priscilla is a beautiful cat. But sometimes Amanda talks about Priscilla too much.

Amanda: Hi. I guess this is the Kittycat Club?

She always talks about how Priscilla cost four thousand dollars.

It is! Right this way.

That's one reason why Hannie doesn't like her.

Karen: Boo-Boo, no!

Karen: Amanda! Amanda! Close the door! They're going to get away!

*Screech!*

Karen: Phew! 
Okay, everyone. Sit down.
This is my idea. The Kittycat Club will be a cat-sitting service, just like Kristy's baby-sitting --

Amanda: Hey! Hannie Papadakis! Make your kitten stop that! She's going to bother Priscilla!

*Pounce*
*Hoip!*
*Hisss!*

Hannie: Naughty Priscilla.

Amanda: Naughty Pat.

Karen: Okay, you guys. We should -- Wait! Don't you want to make a lot of money?

Amanda: Make a lot of money?

If you earn enough, Amanda, you can buy another four-thousand-dollar cat.

Come on you guys. The Kittycat Club supposed to be fun. Why don't you set the cats down? Then I'll tell you my idea.

Hannie: Well…all right.

Karen: Okay, you know how Kristy has her baby-sitting service?

Amanda: Yeah. What does it have to do with the Kittycat Club?

Well, I thought we could do the same thing, except with cats. 

When someone goes away for a few days, we'll take care of their cat.

Karen: We'll go to their house to feed the cat and change the litter box. Since we have all cats, we know how to take care of them.

Hannie: Oh! Good idea! This sounds like fun.

Hannie: What do we do at club meetings?

Karen: We wait for people to call and say that they need us.

Amanda: But we don't have phones. And how will they know about us?

Karen: We make fliers! They can say what we do and when we meet. And we can ask our parents to use the house phones.

Hannie: So we just have to make some fliers…

Amanda: And we will be rich!

Yeah!

Amanda: But…how come we have to bring our cats to the meeting?

Karen: Because…because this is the Kittycat Club, that's why. You need to have a cat!

Umm…let's have our second meeting tomorrow. Then we'll make the fliers. Okay?

Hannie and Amanda: Okay!

Kristy: How is the Kittycat Club?

Karen: It's great!

Karen: The Kittycat Club is going to cat-sit, just like your club baby-sits. Tomorrow, we are going to make fliers!

Kristy: Like the fliers. I told you about?

Karen: Just like them! 

Kristy: Karen, not every club works. Not every business is a success.

Karen: But the Kittycat Club will be. I just know it.

Kristy: Okay. Good luck with the Kittycat Club.

Chapter 5:

Excuse me! Excuse me! Be quiet, please!

Karen: *Clap! Clap!!*
We are trying to have a meeting.

Hannie: Oops, sorry.

Karen: The first thing we have to do is make the fliers. I already have all the supplies. What should go first?

Amanda: How much we charge. Wait…how much are changing?

Hannie: Five dollars a day?

Amanda: That doesn't sound like much money for looking after cats.

Karen: How about thirty dollars? That way we can divide it up between us. We’d each get ten whole dollars!

Hannie & Amanda: Okay!

We have to put our meeting times on the flier. When will we meet?

I guess on the weekends when I'm here visiting Daddy. We don't see Amanda as much, since she goes to a different school.

Karen: So that means we'll meet every other Saturday. How about from two to three o'clock?

Hannie & Amanda: Okay.

Amanda: What if someone needs to call for a cat-sitter, but not on one of those Saturdays?

Karen: Hmm, I guess we ought to say call one of us at home.

Amanda: Which one of us?

Hannie: Maybe me -- I don't mind! My parents can take messages for us. I have to make sure it's okay with them first, though.

Karen: That's great, Hannie! Let's call your parents right now!

Hannie: *Calling and even talking to her mother*

Hannie: Mommy said yes!

Karen: Hooray!
Let's go back upstaires and make some fliers.

Hannie: Phew. We made a lot of fliers. I think we should go home.

Karen: You can’t! We have to choose a president and a vice president and a secretary. It‘s too bad that we don‘t have one more person. Then we could have a treasurer.

Amanda: Oh well.

Hannie: How do we choose the president?

Karen: Easy. I think I should be president. The Kittycat Club was my idea. …But we can draw names, I guess.

Amanda: Let's do that!

Okay. Let's each write our name down on a piece of paper. Then we can pull them out of a box.

Karen: The first name will be our president. The second will be our vice president. Whoever's left will be our secretary.

Karen: Okay, so our president will be…
The president will be Amanda while Karen is choosing.

Hannie: Karen, you're our vice president. I guess that means I'm the secretary.

But…I'm only vice president.

That's better than being secretary.

Karen: I should be the president. The Kittycat Club was my idea!

Amanda: Well, we didn't pull your name out.
And I'll only be in the Kittycat Club if you let me be the president.

Karen: Okay. You can be the president, Amanda. But I will run the meetings.

Amanda: Yeah. All right.

Karen: Good. Now, we have a job to do. 

Karen: We have to deliver the fliers.

Amanda: Gosh, are we done yet?

Karen: Yes! I'm sure we'll be cat-sitters very soon!

And we’ll watch people’s cats when they're not at home!

Karen: I bet we’ll get lots of jobs. I know all about running a business. Kristy told me about her club.
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