ｐａｔｚｒ ｒａｄｉｏ ｏｎｅ ｈｕｎｄｒｅｄ ａｎｄ ｎｉｎｅｔｙ－ｆｉｖｅ - Vern Singletary

episode one hundred and ninety-five / "The bargain was soon concluded, for James had in the meanwhile returned. I to pay four dollars and twenty-five cents to-night, he to vacate at five to-morrow morning, selling to nobody else meanwhile: I to take possession at six. It were well, he said, to be there early, and anticipate certain indistinct but wholly unjust claims on the score of ground rent and fuel. This he assured me was the only encumbrance. At six I passed him and his family on the road. One large bundle held their all,—bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens,—all but the cat, she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last."