I am indebted to Alice H. Plummer for pictorial conception of “Scotty” on the following pages and to A. M. Lofgren for her successful struggle with my language on a typewriter.
The delay in completing this home made, hand turned bit of mission furniture has been due to the constant quarrels between those engaged in its production. The author and editor came to blows over the gender of “mimi,” the illustrator claimed it impossible to give artistic expression to poetic thought by pecking a sheet of waxed paper with a meat skewer and as a climax to this fiasco the captain of the Mascot informed the publisher that he, together with all the subscription moneys, had left for some faraway land with which this country has no extradition treaty.
With many apologies for many faults and with a solemn promise to never do so any more, I sign myself for the last time
The Author
The Illustrator
The Editor
The Publisher
The Printer
The Binder
and
The Captain of the Mascot.
NOTE
The letters beside the page numbers refer to sketch maps at end of the book. Continuous line, southern course; broken line, northern course.
The Boy, Me and the Cat
