Fortune's Fool

[L Verge]

That story has been around for awhile, and Fortune's Fool verifies it. I didn't like that trait either, but I'm not sure that it was for fun. He also killed a farmer's stray sow that wandered onto the farm and a dog that was disturbing his farm. Overall, however, most people remarked that he was an animal lover. Terry includes at least one story of Booth finding a mother cat and kittens caught outside in bad weather and taking them to his landlady at the time for shelter until good homes could be found. Shades of Mr. Lincoln.