May 31 + 

Sitting at tea in the farm house today E⁠⸺ cried suddenly, pointing to a sandy cat in the garden: + 

“There⁠—he’s the father of the little kittens in the barn and I’ll tell you how we know. P⁠⸺ noticed the kittens had big feet and later on saw that old Tom stalking across the garden with big feet of exactly the same kind.” + 

“So you impute the paternity of the kittens to the gentleman under the laurel bushes?” + 

I looked at the kittens tonight and found they had extra toes. “Mr. Sixtoes,” as W⁠⸺ calls him also possesses six toes, so the circumstantial evidence looks black against him. + 