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A Friendly Chat 
pain. That day when Jimmie was napping on the 
desk as usual, the bookkeeper laid down a lighted 
cigar which rolled over toward Jimmie and ignited 
the bandage. In an instant the poor creature was 
enveloped in flames, and in his terrible anguish and 
fright he ran up and down the warehouse, so that 
it was set on fire, causing great damage. When all 
was over the brothers had a meeting, and the three 
agreed that as Paul’s quarter of the cat had done the 
damage, he ought to pay them for their loss. This 
Paul refused to do, and as they could not agree, the 
four brothers then went before a judge ; and how do 
you suppose the judge settled it? Pie said it was 
Jimmie’s three well legs that had enabled him to 
run around the warehouse and scatter the fire, and 
not his sore one at all. And so instead of Paul pay- 
ing his brothers for their loss, they had to pay Paul 
for his. As for poor Jimmie, he died at his post of 
duty a victim to man’s heedlessness.” 
Another brave cat did service on the Battleship 
Texas in Santiago Bay, and I heard mistress read 
one evening how he stayed on the deck with the 
soldiers while the Spanish bullets went whizzing 
around him, and when every dog had gone whining 
and howling down to the bottom of the ship. 
