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Continuing Wodehouse
“Where is this cat?” asked Rodney Scollop. “Is that the animal?” he said, pointing out of the window to where, in the yard, a tough-looking Tom with tattered ears stood mewing in a hardboiled way out of the corner of its mouth.
“Good heavens, no!” said Lancelot. “That is an alley cat which comes arund here from time to time to lunch at the dustbin. Webster is quite different. Webster has a natural dignity and repose of manner. Webster is a cat who prides himself on always being well turned out and whose high principles and lofty ideals shine from his eyes like beacon fires…” And then suddenly, with an abrupt change of manner, Lancelot broke down and in a low voice added, “Curse him! Curses him! Curse him! Curse him!”
Worple looked at Scallop. Scallop looked at Worple.
“Come, old man,” said Scollop, laying a gentle hand on Lancelot’s bowed shoulder. “We are your friends. Confide in us.”
“Tell us all,” said Worple. “What’s the matter?”
Lancelot uttered a bitter, mirthless laugh.
“You want to know what’s the matter? Listen, then. I’m cat-pecked!”
— from P. G. Wodehouse, “The Story of Webster”
Print by Barbara Medford.
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