"My pop is full of hot air, as usual," I say. Kate pours me some tea and asks what's doing. She believes in no visiting rights for fathers. Moves a whisker, Susan hisses again, warningly. He turns his headĪway from her and looks like he never intended Susan keeps hissing at a big tiger-striped tomcatĬrouching under the sofa. Susan and her kittens are under the stove, and Temporary stray kittens in the apartment, but I However many kittens Susan happens to have Just to limber up and let off a little spite, and I slam my ball back and forthĪgainst the wall where it says "No Ball Playing," The day of the fight with Pop about the Belafonte record it's cold and windy out and thereĪre no kids in sight. Put mayonnaise on it, which Kate says is just like Kate shook her head over Mom'sĪsthma and said she'd get over it if she ate cottageĬheese every day. She and Kate would chat together in the stores or sitting on the stoop on a Leery of people, but she's shy, and what withĪsthma and worrying about keeping me and PopĬalmed down, she doesn't go out much or makeĭates with people. They'll make fun of her, I guess my mom's not I introduced Kate to Mom, and they got along He comes acrossĪnd picks her out an extra good one, just to keep Melons don't look good that day, she shouts clearĪcross the store to the manager. In the store, and if she thinks the peaches or Helped her carry home the cat food and cottageĬheese and fruit. Quite often I went with her to the A & P and Me feel real good and important to run them off. There'd be a bunch of little kids dancing around Some mangy old stray cat hiding under a car, and I'd pass her on the street, chirruping to Off and on since then I've seen quite a lot of Have any taste anyway - and I sure have always I ate the cottage cheese - it doesn't really Right that first day that you don't argue with My eyes must have popped, but I guess I knew Here, have an orange, too.īut no cookies or candy, none of that sweet, That stopped me snuffling to ask, "What do There, just dumped me in a chair with a couple Told him she was taking me home to mop me up. A few people on the sidewalk stopped to watchĪnd snicker at us. The doctor looked pretty sheepish, and so did Watch out for a sniveling little kid crossing the Shot, whose life are you saving? Can't you even plates and Kate waving her umbrellaĪt the driver and shouting: "Listen, Dr. I looked up, and there was a shiny black car I heard brakes scream and felt someone yank meīack by the scruff of my neck. Little kid, and I came tearing down our stairsĬrying mad after some fight with Pop, that I first It was three or four years ago, when I was a Her own way, and she doesn't give a hoot what Little looney, but it's just because she does things Woman because she walks along the street inįunny old clothes and sneakers talking to herself,Īnd she sometimes has half a dozen or more strayĬats living with her. Kids around here call her Crazy Kate the Cat I slam out of our house mad, I go along over to This scene, and there gets to be a pattern: When This isn't the first time Pop and I have played I slam the record player shut, grab a stick andīall, and run down the three flights of stairs to Pop hisses, "Now, see - you've gone and upset The record player so hard the needle skips, which "Don't get fresh!" Pop jerks the plug out of "Pop," I say patiently, "there are no rabbits Ten miles chasing rabbits on a good Saturday." Was your age, I made money on a newspaper delivery route, and my dog Jeff and I used to go "Why aren't you outdoors, anyway? Baby-sitting! Baby-talk records! When I "You're not going to play that stuff in this Record has one piece about a father telling his When I earned some extra money baby-sitting forĪ little boy around the corner on Gramercy Park. The big hassle that led to me getting Cat came Heavy drapes or rugs, and Mom never fries anyįood because the doctors figure dust and smoke Middle of New York City - we don't have any Quiet, and when anything upsets her, she getsĪsthma. Thinks he's got to roar a lot to make up for notīeing a big hairy tough guy. Guy with very little gray curly hair, so maybe he My father is always talking about how a dog canīe very educational for a boy. Rosh Hashanah at the Fulton Fish Market 99 For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N.Y.ġ1. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK, EVANSTON, AND LONDON IT'S LIKE THIS, CAT BY EMILY NEVILLE PICTURES BY EMIL WEISS A Celebration of Women Writers It's Like This, Cat
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