Show I KITTY CAT TOWN Old Gray Rat was a wise old fellow fellow fel fel- fellow fel- fel low but he made one one mistake In his old age He moved from an old barn where there were no no cats and no food either to a nice new barn that was filled with grain but where there were two big cats As soon as Old Gray tray Rat had been there one day he knew he had made madea a serious mistake but he did not wish to return to the empty barn nor did he wish t tb to be eaten by the big pussies All one day he spent thinking while his family was asleep and that night instead of going out he cal called ed his family all about him and In very low whispers he told them hi his plan That night when the two big pussies pussies pus pus- sies sies- Tom sies-Tom Tom and Tim Tim came came to the b barn rn they were surprised to hear talking so instead of watching they began to listen Yes Old Gray Rat was saying to his family under the barn floor everyone has a town but lut the cats Did you ever hear of a place called Kitty-Cat Kitty Town or City No all all' the family answered we never did did f father ther No more nore have I or anyone else replied Old Gray Rat flat The cats are creatures without a town Now there is Mouse Land Lana and Rat Land and Dog Town and and all sorts of towns but no place for the cat tribe to call their own Tom and Tim quite quite forgot forgot they had come hunting a that night as they listened and for the first time the they 1 began to wonder why they did not have a town of their own We will start at once said Toni Tom Tomorrow as soon as it is light said Tim and we will name our ourtown ourtown ourtown town Kitty-Cat Kitty Town and all the cats and kitties kittles will come here to live and we shall have all we want to eat for no dog will dare to come near It it So off ort they went forgetting Old Gray Rat flat and his family which was just what he wanted and all night he ran over the new 1 barn larn arn followed by his wife and children eating corn cornand and grain until broad daylight Tom and Tim Cat did not lose any time They ran from one yard to another and up and down the streets calling all their friends together to tell them their plan about Kitty-Cat Kitty Town Everyone thought that was the very best plan they ever heard and the next thing was to select a place t to st start rt the wonderful town They had almost decided upon a place down the road by the woods when along came old gray Tabby Cat What Is all this nonsense I hear about a town for cats to live in she asked Where did you get this idea asked o old d dra ra Tabby Cat and at last she made Tim and Tom Cat confess they overheard what Old Gray Rat had said That is a very good Idea for a rat ratto ratto ratto to have said Tabby Cat He would be rid of you and have the barn to himself but there Is another thing you have not thought of Your Kitty- Kitty Cat Cat CatTown Town would have no mice or or rats so what would you do for hunting huntIng huntIng hunt- hunt Ing All the pussies looked very gra grave va They had not thought of f that Go back t tp your nies all an of you said old Tabby as soon It is time for breakfast But in the meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time time come along to the new barn and show snow Old Gray R Rat Rt t that old Gray Tabby Cat has not not lost lost her wits even if It the younger pussies have No one ever knew just what happened happened happened hap hap- hap hap- that night for old Gray TabbY and her friends the pussies neve never tell secrets but after that night there was never a rat seen around the new new- new barn Perhaps Old Gray Rat heard them come come into the barn and ran off oft as fast as he could with all his family Copyright 1918 by the McClure News- News panr Syndicate atA New York City |