Show FELINE ENGINEERING I I dO dont don't t know wh when I have seen een seena a J more astonished ij d said an an ob- ob citizen who lives where he can an an i iok ok out on a row of Backyard fen fences s i than han was a cat that came under my I Io o 0 this morning i 1 cat a young youn one was sitting calmly I should say mindedly absent n the top of a a. fence on a narrow cop- cop j ng ng strip of board that was was' plenty wide I enough ough for one cat to walk alone or r to i sit on but not wide enough tot for two ts to pass on P I. Presently there came along along this I fence nce top from the opposite direction lon i straight toward the young cat cat sitting j J b ere iere in that like sort sort of way a abig abig abig big old cat that wanted to pass When Jihad thad come to the young cat cat it sat i down Iown on the fence tence top face to face with I It 1 for the young cat did not rot rise up on I tile Ifie old cats cat's approach ch and turn turn and and 1 v lk with what what dignity It could com com- rand along the fence top and so so leave ave the way open for the older cat In iii fact it didn't do anything It was yas young young and rather ather stupid and andt It t didn't t know apparently what to dOnd do jinA nd so it Just sat th nd stared at athe at atthe t the he big cat that had come and and sat I lown own thus in front of ot o It the And An the big big cat it It sat there 1 for or a minute or two facing the young one ind nd just as still and quiet and I on- on Ired red if It it was getting too ongoing ongo 1 ing pg ng to sleep the there e or what when with fth fth he the most amazing suddenness of move- move nent ent ent and with an an equal softness and and andl I the big cat sprang into the theIr theIr theand Ir anc and Jumped clean over the young young i it it t landing on the fence top be beyond ond J and then thep with c calm im and measured steps resumed its way 1 Turning slowly around in Its place on m the fence top but staying right there there here it was the cat perfectly I 1 absorbed sor ed in its Interest followed with o IB js eyes the now slowly receding form torm g. g t the moving deliberately great cat hat at had Just Jumped over It ft The young young rats rat's t ts t's whole whale pose and manner said Just justs Justas as s pl plainly as say Well wIll Well I will be darned fAnd And there It sat chaJ chained ed to the spot apparently watching the theold old cat ng along and so it kept lep on watching i t till the old cat had passed around a a stant stant angle l in the fence tops and o oh on out out nit of view and when I house p minutes later to come down to business bus bus- I mn iness 1 ss the young cat was still sitting r here ere her ner eyes on the spot where the the old ld cat had disappeared New New York r nun un n |