Hi, eveybudy!
My man didn't leave me much ritin rum this tyme but that's okay cus I don't have
much to rite abowt until after I cum back frum Nu York City in December.
I wus reedin Mr. Charlies writin that is jist ahead of me abowt cats and it got
me to membering sum of the cats who lived in this house with me and my man. I can't
member jist how many there were but there were a hole lot. There wus Jiggs and Little
Kitty and Charlie and Thomas and Buster and Toby and Candy and Sonny who my man kalled
Damn Kat. There are still 5 kittys in the house but they are sumpn kalled cremated and
are in a can and 2 boxes. The can has the ashes of 3 kitties and my man calls that our
mixed breed cat.
Jiggs wus the first kitty that cum to live with my man and his wife. I didn't no
him very well cus he cum 2 live here before I did. He and Little Kitty died about the
same time and they were buried in a pet cemetery. Jiggs wus purty smart sumtymes cus he
lerned how to knock on the back door wen he wanted 2 cum inside. He lerned how to jump up
on the roof of the house but then would jist cry and my man wuld have to go get him down.
I guess Jiggs wus really smarter than my man cus it tuk him a long tyme to figger out
that Jiggs was jist playin a game with him. Here's a pitcher of Jiggs that wus painted by
a reel artist back in about 1958.
Mr. Charlie sed sumpn about cats landin on their feet when they fall. Well, my man
proved that it doesn't always wurk. One day he put Jiggs on top of a clothes pole in
the back yard 2 see if he wuld stand there. My man forgot that the pole was made of
slippery pipe and Jiggs fell off and landed on his back on the ground. My man felt real
bad but I bet Jiggs felt worse. My man never tried that again.
I culd rite a long story abowt Candy who cum to us frum Ilnoyze but all I can say
now is that Candy wuld climb way up high in our big tree and go way out on the end of a
branch that had a big V and lay on the V and go to sleep for a long time, rocking the
branch up and down.
My man rote a poum abowt Toby, the last kitty who lived here. He sed he wuld put
it in his Poetry Corner kolumn for you.
