The Slum Cat 
touching a record pitch when his “butler” 
gave the director authority to sell the Analostan 
for one hundred dollars. 
This is how it came about that the Slum Cat 
found herself transferred from the show to a 
Fifth Avenue mansion. She evinced a most 
unaccountable wildness at first. Her objection 
to petting, however, was explained on the 
ground of her aristocratic dislike of familiar- 
ity. Her retreat from the Lap-dog onto the 
centre of the dinner-table was understood to 
express a deep-rooted though mistaken idea of 
avoiding a defiling touch. Her assaults on a 
pet Canary were condoned for the reason that 
in her native Orient she had been used to 
despotic example. The patrician way in which 
she would get the cover off a milk-can was 
especially applauded. Her dislike of her silk- 
lined basket, and her frequent dashes against 
the plate-glass windows, were easily under- 
stood: the basket was too plain, and plate- 
glass was not used in her royal home. Her 
spotting of the carpet evidenced her Eastern 
modes of thought. The failure of her several 
attempts to catch Sparrows in the high-walled 
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