kitten-breeches

Updated: July 2, 2025

"Cat fur, to make kitten-breeches," retorted Annixter with oracular vagueness. Two weeks before this time, Annixter had come up to the city and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the Trees. In his conjecture that Hilma and her parents would stop here, he was right. Their names were on the register.

Frank Norris - The Octopus : A story of California