Mark Twain and his friend, the reverend Joseph Twichell, visited Bermuda fro May 17 to 21 of 1877.   They spend a good deal of time walking along the roads, viewing the countryside.  At one point they stopped at a cottage for a drink of water and conversation with a man whose name was not Mr. Smith. He had a sorry tale to tell of his neighbors and their dead cats and the litigation caused by the cats demise.

The illustration is actually from "A Tramp Abroad" but I thought it an appropriate caricature of the two men.