“ Sam went into the Catorium, and brought out a black and white cat with four kittens, and handed it over to the woman, remarking that she was getting a good deal more cat than she had originally left with him.
"That ain't my cat," says the woman. "My cat is a black tom, and I want him, and I don't want no other."
"Your cat, madam," says Sam, "was number fifty-three, as you will see by looking at your receipt I can't help what it was when you brought it here. The best of food and the best of accommodations will do a good deal towards improving a cat. ”

“ If you know anything about cats, you know that a cat is the most conceited animal on earth. You can put a cat in the best arm-chair in the house, but you can't make the cat stay there. She or he, as the case may be, will say, "I don't let no man select no chair for me," and with that the cat will take another chair, and, as a rule, will always take just the identical one that you want for yourself. Sam, not being intimate with cats, and, considering all the bunks were just alike, supposed that the cats would be contented to stay where they were put ”

“ The surviving cats scattered through the neighbourhood, and that was the end of Sam's Catorium, so far as he and the cats were concerned. Some of the Advanced Women did try to make out that Sam had attempted to murder the lot of them by introducing mad cats into their meeting; but Sam was far enough away from Chicago by that time, and besides, nobody could prove that he had anything to do with putting the cats into the Mormon meeting-house. ”

“ After the meeting was opened, the Advanced Women took to making speeches, and the house was middling quiet, One woman had been speaking for about half an hour, and she was abusing men as lively as you please, when one of the tom cats judged that the thing had gone far enough, and that it was time for him to take a hand in the proceedings. ”