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They sat down to the table just as she had sat opposite to Cap'n Abe
the evening before. She thought, for a moment, that Cap'n Amazon was
going to ask a blessing as her other uncle had. But no, he began
spooning the mush into a rather capacious mouth.
Into the room from the rear strolled Diddimus, the tortoise-shell cat.
Louise tried to attract his attention; but she was comparatively a
stranger to turn. The cat went around to the chair where Cap'n Abe
always sat. He leaped into Cap'n Amazon's lap.
"Well, I never!" said Cap'n Amazon. "Seems quite to home, doesn't he?"
Diddimus, preparing to "make his bed," looked up with topaz eyes into
the face of the captain. Louise could see the cat actually stiffen
with surprise. Then, with a "p-sst-maow!" he leaped down and ran out
of the room at high speed.
"What--what do you think of that?" gasped Cap'n Amazon. "The cat's
gone crazy!"
The girl was in a gale of laughter. "Of course he hasn't," she said.
"He thought you were Cap'n Abe--till he looked into your face.


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