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"I ain't stedyin' about no he an' she!"

"What did Aunt Julia say?" Florence asked

"Whut you' Aunt Julia say when?"

"When you told her these were gray cats and not white cats?"

"She tole me take an' clean 'em," said Kitty Silver "She say, she say she want 'eit here to call an' see 'em" And she added morosely: "I ain't no cat-oman!"

"She wants you to bathe 'em?" Florence inquired, but Kitty Silver did not reply ie effect upon vasty outward portions of her, and then gave an incomparably dulcet imitation of her own voice, as she interpreted her use of it during the recent interview

'Miss Julia, ma'am,' I say--'Miss Julia, ma'am, my bizniss cookin' vittles,' I say 'Miss Julia, ma'am,' I tole her, 'Miss Julia, ma'am, I cook fer you' pa, an' cook fer you' faht make complaint, I take whatever I find, an' I leave whatever I find No'm, Miss Julia, ma'am,' I say--'no'm, Miss Julia, ma'am, I ain't no cat-oman!'"

"What did Aunt Julia say then?"

"She say, she say: 'Di'n I tell you take them cats downstairs an' clean 'em?' she say I ain't nobody's cat-o more and more interested "I should think that would be kind of fun," she said "To be a cat-oman I wouldn't mind that at all: I'd kind of like it I expect if you was a cat-oman, Kitty Silver, you'd be pretty near the only one was in the world I wonder if they do have 'eot 'em some place," said Kitty Silver, "an' I don't know if they ain't got 'eot 'em any place, it's sohtful "Who was it you said is going to call this evening and see 'em?"

"Mista Sammerses"

"She means Newland Sanders," Herbert explained "Aunt Julia says all her callers that ever caot the nale one of 'em!"

"Newland Sanders is the one with the little moustache," Florence said "Is that the one you mean by 'Sammerses,' Kitty Silver?"