David doesn't have a mite of patience with dogs.

He doesn't wait to see if they're nice ones or not, he just goes for 'em and then--Oh! He most always goes for 'em.

When he has kittens he ALWAYS does." Mr.Chase's reply to this illuminating disclosure was that he wanted to know.
"Yes," said Mary-'Gusta, "David doesn't take to dogs, some way.

Why don't cats like dogs, Mr.Chase ?" Isaiah said that he cal'lated 'twas the nature of the critters not to.
Mary-'Gusta agreed with him.
"Natures are queer things, ain't they ?" she said, solemnly.

"I guess everybody has a nature, cats and all.