Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow 'rat-a-tap, tapping' his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze's steps, Cat resolves to tread wheat like the stranger when he grows up: in the big city where he studies music...
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Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow 'rat-a-tap, tapping' his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze's steps, Cat resolves to tread wheat like the stranger when he grows up: in the big city where he studies music or, eventually, further afield, across the sea. Cover -- Copyright -- Chapter 1 -- On the Surgeon's Table -- The King of the Band -- The Highest Spot in the Room -- Dinosaur Tears -- In Concert -- The Black March -- Rains from Paradise -- The Call of the Cat -- All Kinds of Wheat Stepp'n -- The Caretaker's Last March -- Gimme Candy -- Chapter 2 -- The Rickety Old Steam Engine That Couldn't Keep Time -- The Butterfly Man -- The Waltz of the Red Dog and the Blind Boxer -- From my scrapbook, October 12th -- From my scrapbook, November 3rd -- From my scrapbook, December 21st -- From my scrapbook, March 23rd -- The School for the Blind in Summer -- Let Shiny New Black Wings Carry You to a New World -- Chapter 3 -- A Peg on the Nose -- The End of the Mouse Man -- Clutching at a Straw -- The Ball Connection -- Stepping Forward for the Boat Ride -- Chapter 4 -- Seeing Green -- The Mirrorless Palace -- Proud to Be an Oddball -- From my scrapbook, May 7th -- From my scrapbook, June 12th -- The Boxers -- The Brief Memory of the Miraculous Reincarnating Man -- Dark Mice Once Again -- In the Operating Room -- ECG -- In This World, You Have to Learn to Wait -- Ashtrays Aloft -- From my scrapbook, July 6th -- From my scrapbook, July 8th -- The Woman with the Very Large Body -- Wheat-Stepp'n Kutze -- Backcover.
