I never saw such color in a cat.' Course she meant ON a cat but we understood what she meant.
'Are they a very rare breed ?' she asked.

Nate said they was and--" Miss Hunniwell interrupted.

"But they weren't, were they ?" she cried.

"I never knew they were anything more than plain tabby." Jed shook his head.

"Nate said they was," he went on solemnly.
"He said they were awful rare.