I said that was about as long as I had kept 'em.

Then he said he didn't know's he cared about ever havin' 'em again; said he and his wife had kind of lost their taste for cats, seemed so.

I--well, I hinted that, long as the tribe was at my house I wan't likely to have a chance to taste much of anything, but it didn't seem to have much effect.

Then--" "Yes, yes; go on! go on!" "Oh.

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