The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-11
"8uHp and "Bounesr.

following interesting narrative IN tho
st. Nicholas:
The quaint old city of Boston ha
many Interesting sights. but a specta-
Gle that would astonlsh boys and girl
as much as anything is a glimpse al
the home Of Buff" and "Bouncer."
Now Buff and Bouncer are cats. nor
OF fine breed like the Maltese. nor es-
pecially beautiful. like the Angoras
They arc just common, everyday cats.
Bouncer Is a tortoise-shell with a white
triangle on his nose. and Buff dis
like to tell H. but he Is nothing In the
world but an ordinary y ny cat.
Somehow, yellow cats a. 40
counted among tho oifscoyeek-
kind but Bun-woll.
my opinion of yellow csrnarJ3o N
ing him! ~
These Boston cats live Wat is. t
master and mistress Nv lin a b
house on a street in Bostos near a RAJ
road But Bur and Bouncer have a
house all their own. Il stands In the
little square homely city yard, which
extends out to thr tracks.
You will understand that with Noise.
SCOT, cinders and cramped quartefs.
these city cats need some eompensa-
ton for that lack of freedom which
their country brothers enjoy. Their
mistress is 80 fond of them and SO
afraid Of losing them that they are
even deprived Of the city cats chief
pleaslre--back fence promenades-by
reason of < Wire letting stretching fat
along the top of the fence, SO lnat they !
cannot climb up. AS consolation 70.
these pTivations, the mistress OF But
and Bouncer has built them a hop.
that no carpenter need be ashamed Of.
She began 1t as a sort of shelter for
her pets whep they wanted to be ia
the yard in bad weather. But once
her fingers and the hammer got start
ed, the rough kennel grew and grew.
1t reached up until it became four feet !
two inches high, and spread to two and
half feet wide, 1t took on some fan
cy shingles and a cunning gable win
dow. The work then became SO fas-
cinatlng to the builder that she inst
could not help adding piazza and q
bay window. She is a very small wo-
man, so she devised a way to get in
side in order to fasten in windows, to
tack up curtains, and to complete va
rious other arrangements for the COM
/ fort OF her cats. Nearly the whole
side Of the house is swung on hinges
so 1t can be pulled out, and as 1t com
out, like shelf table, some long, slel
der jointed legs unfold, and To-! a so
Of port cochere, on the roof of VIII
the cats like to lie and sun themselves,
and underneath which their hammock
can be hung.
One day, when the cats mistress was
inside the tiny house, sitting on che
floor and hard at work, Buff came in,
jumped up on a crossbeanl high up in
his house, and stretched his head up
as If to look out Of the little gable
window.
We'll, Buff" said his mistress, you
shall have an upstairs, since you want
it so badly" So she put in a sort of
floor up there, leaving an opening Of
course, with shelf half way up, at
the back of the first floor roor
serve as a cat stairway. When
and Bouncer go to their second
they jump up on this shelf stair,
easily spring through the opening IL
their attic room. There is a piece III
thick carpet for them to lie on, and
there they love to stay, doing or look
ing lazily out of their little front win
| dow.
The little house is further fitted up
with a movable flight of steps, which
stand sometimes at the front, some
times at the side of the piazza, but
which, you may be sure, Buff and
Bouncer do not stop to use. 1t also
has q hammock and a bedstead for
each cat. And Buff and Bouncer will
lie in the hammock, allow themselves
to be tucked in bed, or ride in their.
carrtage-a doll carriage-and seem
enjoy themselves hugely. They
also sit up in little chairs at a
table and eat, though they much
their customary way. One has
dish set en- the floor of the piazza, a
generally dimes there; the other has
his dish on the upper balcony or roof
of the piazza.
They seem to like to lie and sleep
in or take ride in their carriage,
though, of course, they have to take
turns. And they like TO lie il their