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Show 11 MARY GEMWA BONNER. THE WISE CAT "People think they nro so smart," said Aphro, tho cat, which Is to Its friends usually IJy&JL 1$31 known ns Kltty" tS"r iMffllil "Yes, they think lp j2sWI Istfl tnnt t,icy cnn 8ay m HEa ' ij L. 'Me-ow, me-ow,' jjJ Just ns wo can gSiaaalgTTr and that we will xxTj iir. t,,lnk thnt otner t I lV"' cats arc about. They can fool J other people, perhaps, per-haps, but they can't fool us. "Ah, no, wo won't be fooled by anything like that. My master Is quite good at It. -I Enjoy Watch- Ile mf '??' la,$ me-ow,' so thnt It sounds quite decently. de-cently. Dut jio ono except n human being would think there was a cat about upon hearing him. "I have heard people mistake tho sound he mado for the sound one of my family would make. Yes, they would hear my master and they would say; "Where Is the cat?' Now my master mas-ter thinks that Is very fine nnd oh, how he would like to fool me. "lie has tried It again nnd ngaln and again, but I nm not fooled. "No, no, Indeed. Sometimes I think I will pretend to be fooled so as to make the master happy, but then thnt would make mo out, to bo very stupid, and I could not bear that. "It would be a disgrace to the family. "I live at a nnval station. It's n very Interesting place. We have bands of music and sailors and all such things, nnd a number of nice cats. That Is the most Important to have nice, sociable friends. "Wo have n very fine Cat Glee club. The sailors have one nnd so wo thought we'd do tho same thing. The sailors sing their songs and we sing ours. "For, I trust you know, n glee club Is a club where everyone sings. And they give concerts. "We give fine concerts too. I don't know how much tito rest of the creatures crea-tures on tho station regard our concerts, con-certs, but I do know that we think they're very fine. "And cats should know how other cats sing. They arc the best Judges surely. "A tarantula came to the stntlon not long ago. He Is a kind of a spider, you know. And ho came on n bunch of bnnunns. That wits tho way he traveled. "He was fed nnd made his homo on the bunch of bananas for a long, long time, but after n time ho went nwny. No ono knew where he went. "You see I am giving you all the station news. "Me-ow, me-ow, there nro some dogs outside. I think I shall watch them play for a bit. I don't feel llko playing play-ing but I enjoy watching them from this window. "I look at them In an Interested wny nnd then I tnke n short snooze or nap. I know how td enjoy life. "I havo traveled quite a bit too. I havo been to mnny other places. You see my master does not stay In ono place. "But I find life much tho same In ono place as In another. If It Is cold I find n stovo to lie under nnd If It Is hot I go under a nice cool shading tree. "Hut wherever I nm I sleep and eat and me-ow nnd purr and of all the plnces l'o been I've never found 'wy HI8J n human being who could fool me l$J''K when trying to Jr jltVK make the me-ow- jmB'$P' Ing sound of a S1WhS real cnt. fiT BJ "No one has "wlf' -T " ever fooled me. ttl nnd I do not he- (wU llevo anyone eer jiffl "I am the wIbc iKL. I cut. And I rome Hk,,''4M from u wise fam. Mi A IW? "Now there was l'gSg a lioness In the city park not so "If it Is Hot" very fur away. She was Jealous .because the keeper walked by with his wife, and she put her paw through the burs and gave the keeper's wife a bud Injury. "1 wouldn't bother to get us angry us thut as long as I'm treated all right I'm Jeulous, but my comfort means' more to me thun anything and noth-Ing noth-Ing else Is ns Important "Oh, well. I'm n wise cut, meow me-ow, me-ow." |