Supplicating Mantis

This Mantis prayed that I would let he'rm into the shed for the winter.  So I let herm in. Not much for Herm to eat in there: lesser used tools and , it seems, an occasional cat who has ... left some scat.  Scat is what you call it when you are tracking game in the woods.  I think I know who the cat is, the most feral "Stranger", as we call him, who is often as not around,  but whom we seldom see.