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something of the kind, for when I hurriedly 

 left the house an hour ago, one leg, two 

 wheels and one supjjort of that wootsie 

 tootsie little tabh> were rent asunder, the 

 fish globe was leaking considerably and my 

 crying little ones were trying to salvage the 

 gold fish out of the hot-air register with a 

 l)op-('orn popper. "What was left whole and 

 self -composed and natural in that room was 

 what was above high-cat-juinp mark. Also 

 when my wife wasn't choked up too much 

 with grief she was conversing with me about 

 that cute little table. "Forget it!" I told 

 her. But her forgetter did not seem to be 

 working well, so I came away. 

 * * * 



Now, while I don 't want any of you to 

 think that in giving you the above-mention- 

 ed important data I was wandering away 

 from the main subject of Job as a journalist, 

 yet I wish to ' ' embalm in the liquid amber 

 of my remarks ' ' one more remarkable inci- 

 dent of the epochal happenings of an hour 

 ago at my home. With the cat tracks on 

 the upper' left-hand side of my torso, neck, 

 ear and head still redhot, and the sound 

 of the dissolving little tea-table, fish-globe 

 and wife still ringing in my ears, I rejoice 

 in one memory of it. It shines forth as the 

 one bit of silver lining on the whole dark 

 cloud. The fact is, kitty made one very 

 bad tactical error just before leaving me 

 forever — that is, I think she did and I think 

 she thinks so now. You see I contracted, 

 years ago, the habit of fishing. It has be- 

 come perniciously chronic. I have contract- 

 ed the further bad habit when coming in 

 from the creek of putting my wet fishing 

 line, hook and all, on the foot of my Persian 

 divan to dry. This plan also avoids the 

 labor of putting it up. It likewise makes 

 my closest relative by marriage mad. It 

 furthermore makes the foot of my divan 

 shunned and greatly respected by callers 

 during the entire fishing season and so keeps 

 it from wearing out. Well, dear old kitty 

 in her last round of circular research for 

 bric-a-brac and other obstacles in my room 

 to surmount, thoughtlessly decided on a 

 trial trip up over and across the foot of my 

 Persian piece-de-resistance of furniture, and 

 the principal results must have come fully 

 up to her fondest expectations. I couldn 't 

 see her, of course. No one could. She was 

 full steam ahead and the safety valve tied 

 down when she undertook the enterprise. 

 But it seems she got attached to something 

 immediately upon arriving on the foot of 

 the divan. Perhaps, now, that is untrue and 

 does her an injustice. Something may have 

 got attached to lier. I don 't know. But 

 between them they worked up about the 

 strongest case of attachment I have ever 

 seen — no, I mean, heard. Her part of the 

 attachment was somewhere posteriorly, and 

 it seemed to change her thought and entire 

 plan of campaign almost immediately. Ap- 

 parently, a truly great enthusiasm for break- 



