no but high colors wint
well enough. Her father always dhressed her well. Anyhow she's goin' to
make up for all the years she had to dhress like an undertaker.
Yistherday it was a gran' opery-cloak, as soon as Artie tould her he had
taken four opery sates for the season."

The ladies gasped, and Mona clapped her hands at the prospect of
unlimited opera, for Anne had always been kind to her in such matters.

"But all that's nawthin'," Judy went on demurely, "to what's comin' next
week. It's a secret o' coorse, an' I wudn't have yez mintion it for the
world, though yez'll hear it soon enough. Micksheen has a new cage all
silver an' goold, an' Artie says he has a piddygree, which manes that
they kep' thrack of him as far back as Adam an' Eve, as they do for
lords an' ladies; though how anny of 'em can get beyant Noah an' the ark
bates me. Now they're puttin' Micksheen in condition, which manes all
sorts of nonsense, an' plenty o' throuble for the poor cat, that does be
bawlin' all over the house night an' day wid the dhread of it, an'
lukkin' up at me pitiful to save him from what's comin'. Artie has
enthered his name at the polis headquarthers somewhere, that he's a
prize cat, an' he's to be sint in the cage to the cat show to win a
prize over fifty thousand other cats wid piddygrees. They wanted me to
attind on Micksheen, but I sed no, an' so they've hired a darky in a
uniform to luk after him. An' wanst a day Anne is goin' to march up to
the show in a different dhress, an' luk in at Micksheen."

At this point Judy's demureness gave way and she laughed till the tears
came. The others could not but join.

"Well, that's the top of the hill," said Mrs. Everard. "Surely Arthur
ought to know enough to stop that tomfoolery. If he doesn't I will, I
declare."

Arthur however gave the affair a very different complexion when she
mentioned it.

"Micksheen is a blooded cat," said he, "for Vandervelt presented it to
the Senator, who gave it to mother. And I suggested the cat-show for two
reasons: mother's life has not been any too bright, and I had a big
share in darkening it; so I'm going to crowd as much fun into it as she
is willing to stand. Then I want to see how Micksheen stands in the
community. His looks are finer than his pedigree, which is very good.
And I want every one to know that there's nothing too good in New York
for mother, and that she's going to have a share in all the fun that's
going."

"That's just lik