![]() In the agony cry of a cat all the blind abysmal anguish of the black cosmic pits seems concentrated. There is something particularly harrowing about the sight of an animal in pain the desperate despair, undiluted by hope or reason, that makes it, in a way, a more awful and tragic sight than that of an injured human. ![]() On that splintered stump the animal was essaying to walk, occasionally emitting a low moaning cry that only slightly resembled the ordinary vocal expressions of a feline. Yet I believe the most sickening spectacle of all was that of a crippled cat limping along a sidewalk, and dragging behind it a broken leg which hung to the stump only by the skin. Oftener than I like to remember I have seen men suffering, bleeding and dying from machinery accidents, knife stabs, gunshot wounds, and other mishaps. Having spent most of my life in oil boom towns, I am not unfamiliar with the sight of torn and mangled humanity.
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