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Updated: May 20, 2025
Many guesses would most assuredly be made by me before guessing cats as the authors of such unearthly music; but cats it is, nevertheless; for, seeing me listening outside by the door, one of the sharers of my rude quarters comes out and removes all doubt by drawing the rude outlines of a cat in the dust with his finger, and by delivering himself of an explanatory "meow."
But ole Maje NO, SIR! He goes miles out'n his way an' then when he gits home he sets down on the doorstep an' licks his feet fer half an hour er so before he begins to meow so's Eliza'll open the door an' let him in. "Ever' so often I got to tie a litter of kittens up in a meal-bag an' take 'em over to the river an' drownd 'em, an' I want to tell you it's a pleasure to do it.
And Winnie, in all the glory of her fluffy youthfulness, toyed carefully with the points of her Moorish collar. "I was elected chaperon of the Midnight Fudge Club, and the girls all said that I fooled Old Meow oftener than anybody!"
It would not be a home-coming without you " And glancing into the hall, nodded radiantly to the assembled servants her parents' old and privileged and spoiled servants gathered to welcome the young mistress to her own. "Oh and there's Missy!" she said, as an inquiring "meow!" sounded close to her skirts. "You irresponsible little thing I suppose you have more kittens. Has she, Susan?"
"Snoop is on the barn!" cried Bert, as the kite settled on the grass a few yards away. "Oh, Snoop! Snoop! are you hurt?" cried Freddie, running back a distance, so that he might get a view of the barn top. Evidently Snoop was not hurt. But he was still scared, for he stood on the edge of the roof, with his tail standing straight up. "Meow! meow! meow!" he said plaintively.
Will you meow?" "Yes and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you kep' me a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says 'Dern that cat! and so I hove a brick through his window but don't you tell." "I won't. I couldn't meow that night, becuz auntie was watching me, but I'll meow this time. Say what's that?" "Nothing but a tick." "Where'd you get him?"
The latter, quite unconscious of impending peril, continued to try to catch Sandyface, who looked down upon his foolish gyrations from a branch near the top of the tree. Perhaps she divined what was about to happen to the naughty Jock, for she did not even meow! Tess had presence of mind enough to holloa "Whoa!" and she kept right on saying it.
She had been sitting on her haunches blinking at him when he raised his voice or gestured, and the crowd has never yet gathered on this earth in the temple of Baal or Jehovah that can resist a cat accompaniment to the functions of a priest. When Gordon looked the little cat full in the face, she liked him at once, and in the softest, friendliest treble said: "Meow!"
But even then it was not for long. A pair of yellow eyes peered around the window-sill, and a plaintive "meow" begged for admittance. It was plainly Providence that guided that thin and ill-treated kitten to Sandy's window. The welcome it received must have completely restored its shaken faith in human nature. Tired as he was, Sandy went out and bought some milk.
"It seems Providential," she told Anne in confidence. "I'm sorry for Matilda Clow, but since she had to break her leg it couldn't have happened at a better time. Leslie will be here while Owen Ford is in Four Winds, and those old cats up at the Glen won't get the chance to meow, as they would if she was living over there alone and Owen going to see her.
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