Later we found out what the trouble was.

It was my tramping up and down between the courses.

She conceived the idea that I could not stand her society.
That word "Youth," as the reader has perhaps already guessed, was my wife's pet name for me.

It was gently satirical, but also affectionate.
I had certain mental and material peculiarities and customs proper to a much younger person than I was.
_From Susy's Biography._ Papa is very fond of animals particularly of cats, we had a dear little gray kitten once that he named "Lazy" (papa always wears gray to match his hair and eyes) and he would carry him around on his shoulder, it was a mighty pretty sight! the gray cat sound asleep against papa's gray coat and hair.

The names that he has given our different cats, are realy remarkably funny, they are namely Stray Kit, Abner, Motley, Fraeulein, Lazy, Bufalo Bill, Cleveland, Sour Mash, and Pestilence and Famine.
At one time when the children were small, we had a very black mother-cat named Satan, and Satan had a small black offspring named Sin.