“Leave them home,” suggested John.
“Oh, we couldn’t do that. They’d be like the Kilkenny cats.”
“Who were they?” demanded Fred.
“Didn’t you ever hear about them?”
“No. Tell me who they were.”
“I guess you mean what they were.”
“All right, what they were, then.”
“Why,” said Grant, “they were a couple of cats that loved to fight. One day somebody tied their tails together and hung them over a clothes line. Of course they began to fight right away and they fought so furiously that when it was all over there wasn’t a thing left of either of them.”
“I suppose you expect me to believe that story,” snorted Fred.
“I don’t care whether you believe it or not,” laughed Grant. “You wanted to hear it, so I told it to you.”