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I'm not so sure about the phone-number business either.

I sort of can't imagine calling up and saying, "Oh, uh, Mary, this is Dave. You want to go to a movie or something, huh?"

It sounds stupid, and I'd be embarrassed.

What she said, it's true?it's sort of wonderful the way we just ran into each other twice and had so much fun.

So I'm wondering how I can happen to run into her again.

Maybe the beach, in the fall.

Let's see, a school holiday?Columbus Day.

The train is pulling into Fourteenth Street.

I shout, "Hey, how about we go to the beach again this fall? Maybe Columbus Day?"

"O.K.!" she shouts.

"Columbus Day in the morning."

"Columbus Day in the morning" sounds loud and clear because by then the subway has stopped.

People snicker, and Mary blushes.

"So long," I say, and we both wave, and the train goes.

That operation didn't make as much difference to Cat as you might think.

I took him back to the clinic to get the stitches out of his leg and the bandages off.

A few nights later I heard yowls coming up from the backyard.

I went down and pulled him out of a fight.

He wasn't hurt yet, but he sure was right back in there pitching.

He seems to have a standing feud with the cat next door.

However, he's been coming home nights regularly, and sometimes in the cool part of the morning he'll sit out on the front stoop with me.

He sits on a pillar about six feet above the sidewalk, and I sit on the steps and play my transistor and read.

Every time a dog gets walked down the street under Cat's perch, he gathers himself up in a ball, as if he were going to spring.