The Cat Who Had 14 Tales by Lilian Jackson Braun

Author:Lilian Jackson Braun
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Mystery, Adult, Humour
ISBN: 9780745113975
Publisher: Jove
Published: 1988-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

I was helpin’ out behind the bar when Porky walked in with the milk carton.

Gus give him a wallop on the back and says to me: “Pour the ol’ galoot a shot o’ red tea to warm his pipes.” He liked to talk logger-talk sometimes.

Gus was a nice old fella, but he looked half-crazy. Gray hair stickin’ out every-which-way, nose crooked, no color in his eyes. Used to keep a saloon up north near the lumber camps, and he was a tough cookie. When I got to know Gus he was pretty old, but he could still jump over the bar and bounce a foundry worker or dockhand if they was makin’ trouble.

I remember the bar—all made of logs, with a pine slab three inches thick. A beaut! There was a potbellied stove with about fifty feet of stovepipe. And all over the wall there was animal heads—deer, elk, moose. A stuffed raccoon, stuffed weasel—all like that. Gus said he bagged ’em all himself, but nobody believed it. He was soft on animals. We guessed he’d shoot a man before he’d shoot a squirrel. He had a pet chipmunk in the saloon up north, and some drunk bit its head off on a bet. Gus laid him our good—with a peavey handle.

What did Gus think about Tipsy?

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