He, like some dudes I have known, thinks his
mother should conslder.it a privilege to wait on
him. He is her oldest and only son. He had two
brothers, but they are gone. Jocco started witli
them in a sack on the wagon, Intending to give
them to one of our neighbors without bin knowing
anything about it, but from some unknown cause,
the sack fell flom the wagon and one of them was
crushed by the wheel. The other one reached his
destination and has not been heard of since.
Tabbie No. 1 has frequently been promised her
death by her master for sharpening her claws on his
young fruit trees, but she still lives, and be says if
she can be seen with only one of the mischievous
squirrels that are taking his corn, her life shall be
spared. Little Comedy is a plump little gray kitten,
child of No. 2. Just now it sits on a chair blinking
its eyes and moving its lips as if trying to iix them
like some girls do. Onco when it was sitting on
Charcoal s knee listening to him sing, it jumped up
suddenly, placed its paws on his beard and ran its
nose hastily over his face, hunting, I suppose, for
the source of the sound that struck so harshly upon
its musical cur.
