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Show A Diplomatist Downed by a Kitten. We remember to have seen a distin-, griished diplomatist, trained to hold his own iu tho courts of kings, and never at a loss to got out of an embarrassing position posi-tion or to meet an act of rudeness by a rapier thrust of wit, utterly put down by a small black kitten. The diplomatist had been playing with the kitten, bnt he went too far. Instead of making fun for the kitten he made fun of her, and this she was quick to see and to resent. Determined De-termined to mark her sense of his conduct, con-duct, she at once put a stop to the game and calmly bnt resolutely placed her small person in front of the man of ceremony, cere-mony, wrapied her tail neatly round her toes, and gazod at him with an air of pitying contempt. . It was an electric moment, and the rest of the company watched with palpitating palpitat-ing eagerness the Btruggle for ascend-' ency. It proved, however, an unequal contest. After a few moments of regard which told more of sorrow than of anger, the kitten deliberately liegan to wash her little black face, stopping every now and then, paw in hair, to give a look of faint surprise, mingled with disgust, at her antagonist. The situation speedily became be-came ridiculous, but not for the kitten, and in a very short time tho diplomatist had evidently admitted himself beaten. The kitten then roso, walked to the window and placidly gazed out at the landscape, every curve in her back showing show-ing her sense of the bad taste which had characterized the incident that had jusi terminated. London Spectator. |