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wherever she directed her feetsteps I fovuid 

 later about four good substantial cat toe- 

 nail abrasions per step each, and these were 

 all along my upper left-side region. She 

 was evidently nervous and careless. Where 

 she got her flying start seemed to be at the 

 clean top of me, for later investigation went 

 to show that she braced herself there to try 

 to break the cat long-jump record, and 

 thoughtlessly didn 't think where she was. 

 Probably she was trying to do the best 

 she could under the circumstances, but, in 

 securing the largest purchase and forward 

 propulsion of her hind legs possible, she 

 seems to have slipped backward about one 

 and one-half inches before she thought to 

 take her toe nails out of the left auricular 

 procranial area of my scalp. That incident 

 led me to arise enthusiastically and take 

 in further proceedings standing up. Right 

 here I must pause to say that I can 't go 

 into details as I would like to do, for there 

 wasn 't time to get them. As best I can 

 recall subsequent stirring events, after aris- 

 ing I tried first to get a glimpse of dear old 

 pussy. If I had started to revolve in the 

 opposite direction from which she was then 

 earnestly, uninterruptedly and tumultuously 

 touring around and abound my palatial 

 study, I might have got one flash of cat per 

 revolution. But I didn 't have that luck. I 

 started revolving the same way she was en 

 route, and my line of vision never did catch 

 up. But this isn 't saying it was not inter- 

 esting — every second of it. Things began 

 flying early and kept coming continuously 

 and increasingly. So I knew kitty was 

 probably doing about her level best in the 

 speed line on a four side track. About the 

 thirty-ninth merry-go-round I got so dizzy 

 that things fogged up, and I had to slow 

 down. Along just about that time then (I 

 am not clear on the order of events) the 

 worst and also noisiest eruption of the' oc- 

 casion drowned out the sound of 'most all 

 the other things flying in the room at that 

 date — and my poor, long-suffering, patient 

 wife 's face appeared at the door. Awful — 



worser than you know of yet — a 



(censored) sight! For hadn't I, just the 

 day before, after a whole spring and summer 

 of wily persuasion, got wife to let me bring 

 her little mahogany-on-wheels tea-service 

 table into my room with the globe of gold 

 fish on it? I had. Hadn't I i^romised not 

 to put even a pin down on the precious, deli- 

 cate thing? I had. Hadn't I promised to 

 pick it up, successftilly balance the fish 

 globe on it, not spill a drop of water, and 

 rush it back on display in the dining-room 

 every time the doorbell rang? I had. Now 

 then! Do you think that kitty missed that 

 precious little tea-wee table? Not on your 

 life she didn 't. That was the cause of the 

 biggest of all eruptions just mentioned 

 above. She hit it square amidships when 

 she did get around to it, too. Remember, I 

 didn 't see her do it, but I think she did 



