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where he came from, but that doesn't matter; 

 he was a terror after cats, and some time dur- 

 ing his Hf e he evidently overtook one that left 

 his or her mark on one of his eyeballs ; though 

 it must have been when Bob was young, as in 



later life he 

 only waddled 

 after them and 

 never got near 

 enough to make 

 a cat more than 

 spit ; but the 

 cat evidence on his eyeball was plain to be 

 seen. That was perhaps why he was always 

 trying to wipe out the old grudge. As he got 

 very old, he got to be a painful sight to every- 

 body but himself. He had curvature of the 

 spine, so that his hindquarters got to a place 

 about the same time as his forefeet did, and that 

 impediment, with the full scratched eye that 

 wouldn't close, made Bob an unpleasant sight, 

 and even the Wolfard family that was large cut 

 him socially, as did most all others. Pie was 

 short tailed and so fat that it made him pant 

 with his tongue out to wag his tail, but some- 



