The Calico Cat

The Calico Cat is a humorous novel by Charles Miner Thompson. The after-effects of being overcome by anger are hilariously depicted in this story of a self-important man who fires a shotgun at an annoying cat sitting on his fence. The shot goes wide and happens to hit a man lurking in the bushes. What did the cat do to infuriate him? Why was a man doing in the bushes? And how can the whole problem be obscured and done away with before the neighbors start chatting?