Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 366
sto encounter in her stories,usually keep a cat, thoughtheirs are only the farmersplain useful cats. I look back over a longline of cats, says she; froma certain poor Spotty, whodied in a fit under thelibrary window when I wasless than five years old, toa lawless, fluffy coon-catnow in my… … (OWNF far too early old age, and left me to take my country walks alone. Polly, the enemy, was far the best mouser of all — quite the best business cat we ever had, with an astonishing intellect and shrewd wayof gaining her ends. Shecaught birds and mice as ifshe foraged for our wholefamily. She…
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