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a medical doctor to save humans, his overbearing father forced him to be a vet like himself. The village children talk of a local "witch" named Lori who is said to cure ailing animals through magic. After MacDhui refuses to help an injured frog found by
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Thomasina (who narrates some of the story). Although Mary loves Thomasina, her father MacDhui only tolerates the cat. MacDhui is a bitter and resentful atheist because his wife died young, and while he had desired to be
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Thomasina, many villagers have stopped taking their animals to him and instead are taking them to Lori. MacDhui goes to confront Lori over this and ends up helping her care for a
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at Lori's cottage, wakes up and suddenly remembers her true identity and her past life with Mary and is impelled to make her way back to Mary through a rainstorm. When
Thomasina appears at Mary's window, Lori recognizes her as the cat she rescued, the housekeeper lets her in and MacDhui hands her
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Thomasina's burial place in the hills, Lori appears, exhumes Thomasina's body, and discovers the cat is still alive; the chloroform simply induced a deep sleep. Lori takes the cat to her own cottage to recover. When Thomasina wakes up, she
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badly injured badger that is beyond her ability to heal. He is touched by her tenderness and learns that she also has experienced the loss of her close family. He visits her often teaching her medical skills. They eventually join forces to rescue starving and abused animals owned by
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