And most of all, perhaps, was it fun to tease the lazy old kitchen cat, till her tail would get as big as a bottle brush with helpless indignation." "The _cat_ ?" exclaimed the Babe.

"Why, weren't they afraid of _her_ ?" "Wait and see!" remarked Uncle Andy simply, with no apologies whatever to the Prime Minister.

"Well, as I was about to say, their method was simple and effective.

They would wait till they found the cat lying along the narrow top of the rail fence, sunning herself.

It was her favorite place, though it can hardly have been comfortable, it was so narrow.