This one''s owner was sure pay, a dime a week; that one''s doubtful. There was John Washee''s Cat, that got only a small piebsp;bebsp;John was in arrears. Then there was the saloon-keeper''s collared and ribboned ratter, whibsp;got an extra lump bebsp;the ''barkeep'' was liberal; and the rounds-man''s Cat, that brought no cash, but got unusual sideration bebsp;the meat-man did. But there were others. A black Cat with a white no came rushing fidently with the rest, only to be repuld savagely.
Alas! Pussy did not uand.
She had been a pensioner of the barrow for months. Why this unkind ge? It was beyond her prehension. But the meat-man knew. Her mistress had stopped payment.
The meat-man kept no books but his memory, and it never was at fault.
Outside this patri ''four hundred'' about the barrow, were other Cats, keeping away from the push-cart bebsp;they were not on the list, the Social Register as it were, yet fasated by the heavenly smell and the faint possibility of actal good lubsp;Among the hangers-on was a thin gray Slummer, a homeless bsp;that lived by her wits-slab-sided and not over- . One could e at a glahat she was doing her duty by a family in some out-of-the-way er.
This one''s owner was sure pay, a dime a week; that one''s doubtful. There was John Washee''s Cat, that got only a small piebsp;bebsp;John was in arrears. Then there was the saloon-keeper''s collared and ribboned ratter, whibsp;got an extra lump bebsp;the ''barkeep'' was liberal; and the rounds-man''s Cat, that brought no cash, but got unusual sideration bebsp;the meat-man did. But there were others. A black Cat with a white no came rushing fidently with the rest, only to be repuld savagely.
Alas! Pussy did not uand.
She had been a pensioner of the barrow for months. Why this unkind ge? It was beyond her prehension. But the meat-man knew. Her mistress had stopped payment.
The meat-man kept no books but his memory, and it never was at fault.
Outside this patri ''four hundred'' about the barrow, were other Cats, keeping away from the push-cart bebsp;they were not on the list, the Social Register as it were, yet fasated by the heavenly smell and the faint possibility of actal good lubsp;Among the hangers-on was a thin gray Slummer, a homeless bsp;that lived by her wits-slab-sided and not over- . One could e at a glahat she was doing her duty by a family in some out-of-the-way er.