. The adventures of Tommy Postoffice; the true story of a cat . der thehead of first-class matter, they had toawait their turn. Tommy proceededto look them over. Sniff, sniff, wenthis pink nose, and presently his keennostrils were assailed by an odorwhich caused him to behave as thoughhe had suddenly taken leave of hissenses. He meowed, he warbled, he111 THE ADVENTURES OF lay down and tumbled about like atipsy cat, and then, ah, woe upon him!he set about scratching with those for-midable claws, and in just about oneminute the paper in which that ex-traordinary stuff was wrapped wasreduced to f
. The adventures of Tommy Postoffice; the true story of a cat . der thehead of first-class matter, they had toawait their turn. Tommy proceededto look them over. Sniff, sniff, wenthis pink nose, and presently his keennostrils were assailed by an odorwhich caused him to behave as thoughhe had suddenly taken leave of hissenses. He meowed, he warbled, he111 THE ADVENTURES OF lay down and tumbled about like atipsy cat, and then, ah, woe upon him!he set about scratching with those for-midable claws, and in just about oneminute the paper in which that ex-traordinary stuff was wrapped wasreduced to fragments, and noone in this world could everguess what address had beenwritten upon it. But Tommy washaving a royal time. He was wal-lowing in a bunch of catnip as bigas himself. He took no account oftime; he was enjoying himself hugely,so what cared he how time passed?It might have been an hour, it mighthave been more, and then came theclerks whose duty it was to attend to 112 TOMMY POSTOFFICE this class of matter. They foundTommy fast asleep,—catnip under. Tommy was wallowing in a bunch of catnip as hlgas himself. him, catnip on top of him, catnipscattered from one end of the 113 THE ADVENTURES OF office to the other. A very carpetof catnip. What did Tommy care?Not one straw. He felt sure that allexplanations concerning the conditionof the mail-matter should be made bythe mail-clerks, and that his sole dutywas to sample the quality of the stuffwhich passed through the office. It is quite possible that the peoplewho sent that package of catnip, aswell as the people who were expectingit, are still wondering what under thesun ever became of it. But now we must skip over a yearor more in Tommys history. Dur-ing that period he led a blissful life,growing more and more beautiful,winning new friends, and gaining a114 TOMMY POSTOFFICE wider reputation. He learned manytricks, and when visitors came to theoffice Tommy was made to performfor their edification. The boyswere extremely p
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