Seeing Things 



frequently on top, in which case they 

 were apt to be of generous height and 

 pointed. The mouth was always of 

 cavernous dimensions, and curved 

 sharply upward at each end, giving the 

 creatures thus called forth from their 

 typographical ova a bland and smiling 

 countenance. If there happened to 

 be space enough on either side of these 

 big O's an elongated body was fitted 

 up against the face, to which four legs 

 were attached; the front ones projected 

 well forward, and the hind ones ex- 

 tended far toward the rear, giving a 

 certain effect of exceeding all known 

 speed limits. A gaily up-curved 

 tail of generous proportions, in- 

 variably thrown well forward over 

 the quadruped's back, completed this 

 somewhat startling delineation of a 

 wildcat or some other moon-faced 

 nondescript tearing through space with 

 its grinning face, broadside on as it 

 galloped along on its apparently happy 

 way, across the title page of some 

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