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IV. SEVEN BLACK CATS.
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They all came uninvited, they all led eventful lives, and all died tragical2 deaths; so out of the long list of cats whom I have loved and lost, these seven are the most interesting and memorable4.
I have no prejudice against color, but it so happened that our pussies5 were usually gray or maltese. One white one, who would live in the coal-bin, was a failure, and we never repeated the experiment. Black cats had not been offered us, so we had no experience of them till number one came to us in this wise.
Sitting at my window, I saw a very handsome puss come walking down the street in the most composed and dignified7 manner. I watched him with interest, wondering where he was going.
Pausing now and then, he examined the houses as he passed, as if looking for a particular number,[Pg 53] till, coming to our gate, he pushed it open, and walked in. Straight up to the door he came, and finding it shut sat down to wait till some one opened it for him.
Much amused, I went at once, and he came directly in, after a long stare at me, and a few wavings of his plumy tail. It was evidently the right place, and, following me into the parlor8, he perched himself on the rug, blinked at the fire, looked round the room, washed his face, and then, lying down in a comfortable sprawl9, he burst into a cheerful purr, as if to say,—
"It's all right; the place suits me, and I'm going to stay."
His coolness amused me very much, and his beauty made me glad to keep him. He was not a common cat, but, as we afterward10 discovered, a Russian puss. His fur was very long, black, and glossy11 as satin; his tail like a
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1 vent | |
n.通风口,排放口;开衩;vt.表达,发泄 | |
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31 rascal | |
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