Susy recognizes that when she mentions Sour Mash it is not necessary to localize her.

To Susy, Sour Mash is the Bunker Hill Monument of Quarry Farm.
Ordinary cats have some partiality for living flies, but none for dead ones; but Susy does not trouble herself to apologize for Sour Mash's eccentricities of taste.

This Biography was for _us_, and Susy knew that nothing that Sour Mash might do could startle us or need explanation, we being aware that she was not an ordinary cat, but moving upon a plane far above the prejudices and superstitions which are law to common catdom.
Once in Hartford the flies were so numerous for a time, and so troublesome, that Mrs.Clemens conceived the idea of paying George[9] a bounty on all the flies he might kill.

The children saw an opportunity here for the acquisition of sudden wealth.

They supposed that their mother merely wanted to accumulate dead flies, for some aesthetic or scientific reason or other, and they judged that the more flies she could get the happier she would be; so they went into business with George on a commission.