cat-walking

Updated: May 14, 2025

You see, when old Snuffy is cat-walking he wears goloshes that he may sneak about better, and the way Lorraine makes booby-traps is by balancing cans of water on the door when it's ajar, so that he gets doused, and the can falls on his head, and strings across the bottom of the door, not far from the ground, so that he catches his goloshes and comes down.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - We and the World, Part I: A Book for Boys