From the story.
" "Charlie," I asked, "Didn't you tell me, you sold birds to the movie star, Andy Devine," I asked. "I loved Devine in the movie, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE."
"No Sweat, Andy came here several times. A very fine person. I have a photograph of us with a Stassart he bought. That picture is here in the library. Andy told me that when he was a boy he grew up out in the country --Texas, I think--near a mine. He said that when he was a boy and had pigeons he was playing around near that mine and stole four sticks of dynamite. He kept the dynamite hid for a while. And then one day, he caught a cat which had been sneaking into his loft and killing his pigeons. Andy told me, he tied all four of those sticks of dynamite together and then tied them to that cat. He lit the dynamite and then he threw the cat down on the ground. The cat ran straight towards his pigeon loft and hid. A few seconds later the dynamite exploded, blowing up the cat, his loft and every pigeon he owned."