I meow allegiance/to the flag/of the United Qats of America/and to the repurrblic/for which it naps/one nation/under Qat/indivisible/with kitty treats and catnip for all.
Wikipedia’s Mickey Spillane article says that he wrote I, the Jury in nine days. It sold 6.5 million copies and was estimated to be one of the ten top-selling American novels as of 1956.
And the illustrator can’t resist doing the same thing every designer of a cardinal sports logo does: giving the bird an incorrect yellow bill. Cardinals have red bills. Believe it or not.
It’s the deep, deep middle of the night. It’s so late that all you can do is hang on and wait for 4:00 when it starts becoming early again.