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Show THE CAT THAT REASONED. Family Pet Made the Dest of Unfa miliar Situation "Talking about tho ability of nnl mnls to reason, ' said u citizen, "you ought to sco ni) wife's cat Ho Is n spoiled beast, and In tho evening when tho family Is sitting nbout the lamp no objection Is mndo to Ills Jumping up on tho table and wulklng nroiind to bo petted Hut ono thing ho hns lenrncd b) dint of soernl good whlppiigs Is thnt he must never got up on tho tnble when It Is spread for n meal Well, ono night recently when wo emtio home from tho theater wo decided to havo a llttlo supper, and ni) wlfo sprend n cloth over tho end of tho tnlilo The cat Just then entered en-tered tho room Walking to tho tnblo ho was nbout to Jump up when he caught sight of tho white cloth over 0110 end It was plain that ho wns puzzled Plrst he went to tho end that had'no cloth, hesitated, and then returned to look tit tho end thnt con tallied the rloth Mv wlfo and I stood still to v.nfch him ami wo had no doubt that lie wns nssuilng himself that the cloth was nallj there At length he jumped up on n chair by tho table 1 iih to sunoy Its top Tho half of tho tiblo at which ho sat was fieo from tho cloth, and dually ho very cnutlousl) climbed up on tho tnblo and slowly crossing over to tho half which contained the cloth, sat down nt tho very edge" |
