Show I see in the paper7 remarked a passenger pas-senger from down East that a smart boy in Iowa made quite a strike by learning learn-ing to imitate a cat By going about in I peoples yards raising his catterwaul be made quite a spec of the old shoes boot jacks stovehandles and things he gathered gath-ered up But that is an old scheme I tried the same thing when I was a boy and carried it on for two or three weeks But one night after making the air ring and shriek with my imitations I concluded conclud-ed to give up the business I was domg tolerably well for a boy hut all of a sudden sud-den I decided to quit and quit I did Couldnt you gather up enough stuff to suit you Enough Should say I could The very last thing I gathered in was a load of birdshot from a doublebarreled shotgun shot-gun I always know when Ive got enough |