24 OUR DICK. 



sometimes fancied that he was captured 

 by the dog-catchers on a day when he 

 had set out from his former home to 

 battle with some feline enemy, and that 

 he had sworn a small doggie oath to ex- 

 terminate all the cats in San Francisco. 

 Be this as it may, his warfare on these 

 animals was sharp and incessant. His 

 dislike of under-bred cats was especially 

 strong. To cats of good extraction, glossy 

 coat and good general deportment, his 

 antipathy was less fierce; but a "roofer" 

 he could not abide, and he would do his 

 utmost to destroy such, root and branch. 

 Hearing the doleful wail of a "roofer" 

 on our garden-wall, he would drop the 

 most inviting bone that ever came from 

 cook Mary's store of dog provender. 



A " roofer " is a cat who, through mis- 

 fortune or contrary disposition, has taken 



