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...Racket: Some particular kinds of fraud and robbery are so termed, when called by their flask titles, and others, Rig; as, the Letter-racket; the Order-racket, the Kid rig, the Cat and Kitten rig; etc., but all these terms depend on the fancy of the speaker. In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question...
...Mars after 15 decades would even now be difficult, for no one can know what noble proposal may be offered at any moment and manfully carried out nor what recrudescence of the Stone Age may suddenly appear under the united protection of the male vote. . . . You have seen a kitten waggling its tail with body atremble as it spies an imaginary mouse. It is proclaiming what it is going to do, when it grows up. So women voters with wrinkled brows are looking on?indignation mounting here, aspiration growing there and determination everywhere. Some day these voters may well...
...communal bull, for which the whole village turns out in Sunday clothes. Gathered in front of a barn gate, waiting the entry of Fomka's flower-wreathed bride, the crowd repeats "here she comes" but the first creature to come through the gate is a baby, the second a kitten, finally the bride, to the stirring strains of the "Internationale." Best shot: priests, farmers, woman, and cripples, marching with ikons and incense through the scorched fields, asking God for rain...
...Detroit, Mich., R. V. Wayne, who has befriended some 10,000 stray cats in his lifetime, found that robbers had made off with his Cadillac car and a kitten with 23 toes which was sitting in the back seat. Perturbed, R. V. Wayne offered a reward for the return of the kitten...
...Sunday mornings the house cat taught him [Kitten Mike] to stalk pigeons in the colonnade. Mike was set to 'point' like a dog, and the house cat little by little drove the pigeons up into a corner. The pigeons became dazed, and fell down, and then each cat seized a bird and carried it into the house uninjured. The house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten...