Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — Me and The Cat. [ARTICLE]

Me and The Cat.

Harper's Magazine for February. Richard X is an incorrigible youngster of ten who has showu a tendency to lay the blame of his misdeeds on other shoulders. His favorite scapegoat was the family feline. A jar of sweets cnulrJ not be opened, or -a bite of gingerbread purloined, or a vase broken to atom-:, without a lame exi use of Dick’s, ‘ I guess it was the cat,” calling forth his mother’s reproaches: “Richard, you must not lay the J blame on the cat of all the wickedness you are guilty of in this house.” | Not long after one of these upbraidings. in Sunday-school, his teacher asked Richard the question, apropos of the devil’s power on earth, “Who is responsible for the wickedness of this world?” j It was with a mixture ofacontrite spirit and the old habit that little Dick answered: I “Well, I suppose that I’m partly to blame. But—but I think our cat has her paw in it-.”