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Cat on the Lot and the Old Folks’ Deaths Recalled
A ragged verse fragment recalls a grim scene in a garden and a cot on the hill where an old couple died. It mentions a cat, a cow shed, and a chain of macabre misfortunes mixed with aphorisms and miscellaneous quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.W. Cristy
Cons &Co
Aurora
Cincinnati
Das. Cummings
L. Gieguldt
JO. P. Walker
GAN U
M. Ewings .&Co- Commission
Third
Main
Mechanic
Ind
Cheek
Sai Ko' P Gobb & Co
P. Hill
H. A. Hurlbert
Hurlbert
London
Hamle
Jerrold
Guinea
Naxa
Petrisol
Eden