In their little house on the commom, how beautifully the Claxtons lived, how spiritually! Even the cat was a vegetarian - at any rate officially - even the cat. Which made little Sylvia's behavior really quite inexcusable. For after all little Sylvia was human and six years old, whereas Pussy could be contend with greens and potatoes and milk and an occasional lump of nut butter, as a treat - Pussy, who had a tiger in her blood - surely Sylvia might be expected to refrain from surreptitious bacon-eating. Particularly in somebody else's house.
