Show I STORY ABOUT BOUT A CAT CATIn CATIn I In the campaign campaign against rats in America the U U U. U S. S Department of or Agriculture is not at all nIl enthusiastic about B Brer er Cat It places much more faith in poison and nd the trained t ter ter- l'- l' rier A professional exter exterminator of rats says th that t where where here you find you find one ohe cat that is a good ratter four f r will have nothing to todo do with them Indeed as any naturalist will tell you the most efficient thing a cat d does es is to kill innocent birds Speaking about nat naturalist among the first known of that profession was a monk who lived seven hundred years ago one Bartholomew cus In his book heres here's his account about Mr Cat written in the quaint language of the thc age ge and which sounds so curious curious' to our modern ears The cat is a full lecherous beast in youth swift pliant and merry erlY and is n a a right li heavy vy beast in age ard and full sleepy p and lieth in wait for mice and is aware where w where lere they be m more re by smell than by sight sigh and and upon them in n privy places places places pla pla- ces and when he a 3 mouse he therewith and him after the play In time of love is hard fighting for for wives and scratch- scratch eth and the other with biting and with claws And he a noise and ghast when one one to fig fight with an- an others nor or is he hurt when thrown down off a high place And w when cn he has a f fair ir skin he is as it were proud thereof and go goeth th fast about and when his skin is burnt then he at ut home Gess is was the same same old Tom cat Life Ale No 1 f. f |