There are cats all over the country; and when we're out bicycling, a good way from home, we could easily pick up one or two at a time and bring them back with us.

We ought to be able to get four a day, counting kittens; and in eight days the home would be full and two over." "And we should be prosecuted for stealing them," said the Terror coldly.
"But they'd be ever so much better off in the home, properly looked after and fed," protested Erebus.
"That wouldn't make any difference.

No; it's no good trying to get them that way," said the Terror in a tone of finality.
"Well, they won't come of themselves," said Erebus.
"They would with valerian," said Wiggins.
"Who's Valerian ?" said Erebus.
"It isn't a who.

It's a drug at the chemist's," said Wiggins.

"I've been talking to my father about cats a good deal lately, and he says if you put valerian on a rag and drag it along the ground, cats will follow it for miles." "Your father seems to know everything--such a lot of useful things as well as higher mathematics," said the Terror.
"That's why he has a European reputation," said Wiggins; and he spurned the earth.
That afternoon the Twins bicycled into Rowington and bought a bottle of the enchanting drug.