Three weeks before, he had dressed the cat in doll's clothes and taken it round the garden in the perambulator.

He himself had forgotten the incident, but Justice, though tardy, was on his track.

The misdeed was suddenly remembered at the very moment when unavailing regret for the loss of the favourite was at its deepest, so that to box his ears and send him, then and there, straight off to bed was felt to be a positive relief.
"At the end of a fortnight, the cat, finding he had not, after all, bettered himself, came back.

The family were so surprised that at first they could not be sure whether he was flesh and blood, or a spirit come to comfort them.

After watching him eat half a pound of raw steak, they decided he was material, and caught him up and hugged him to their bosoms.