Excerpt from The Triangular Society: Leaves From the Life of a Portland Family
That cat became the bane of the family, the staple Of discontented converse. Even the mother, who dotes on dumb things, and deifies Mr. Bergh, was Often heard to say, after some season Of unusual trial, I declare, I wish there were some instantaneous and merciful way of killing a cat. If I hire a boy to kill her, he will torture her; if I turn her away, she will be abused and starved; if I keep her, she will wear the life out Of me. She is a perfect elephant This last position was strenuously combated by Bobby, who intimated that she had no trunk but he was promptly snubbed by Brunette, who remarked, I Wish she had a trunk, I ’d put her into it and send her Off by express this afternoon, with C. O. D. On the cover, meaning Carry her Off and Drown her. Only Bob remained her friend; chiefly, no doubt, because he never had any work to do for her.
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