Show c y JC af I 1 e ja nolee noise broke upon the atilla belll night it sounded like the faint wait wall f a babe in lit pain thin roso creeden do into the belkle vell de caterwaul at of ii thomas cat with a powerful alto voice iha came an answering high soprano sir nall all anil and the nightly duet As on I 1 ahta the poet put down hie his pen pushed hie his hand hands through hia his abundant hair a little harder at his pipe and went ent to tho the window to kaze gaze out into the moonlight that bathed in ti effulgence the pretty vi lage lama of dingle in the myrtles 1 I hate cats ho he said confound cm em confound all cats at almaa wa s cats of all colore colors black white gray by night a nuisance and by day con found the cats here I 1 come to this towery klen ten bubbling bubb ying over with jy jv at the thought of escaping from the cea ceaseless roar and rattle of the city ti 0 be disturbed by cats why their noise itt Is more destructive to rn ra tion more trying to the nerve nerves than the clanging of a hundred trolle trolley y care cars no the comparison wont do thero there ic to a certain fascination a strange N will III stirring harri harmony ony in the diapason of the city a hum and in the 8 singing of the rushing trolley trolleys whereas cate cats he lie ceased with a gesture indicating thit words failed him in which to ei prez o hie his opinion of the offending felines mr loveson ahta who while making ma klag a pretense of working at some embroidery hit ha I 1 been rocking her A a I 1 self elf in contented fm MF indolence nd olence and a watching the 9 changing espres slon on her husbands handsome flee as he wrestled with the muse laughed the little rippling laugh that was one of her many charms and that from the very first time he bad had beard heard it had always been the awe ett music to his hi eara earn well it can t helped she said let Iler hercules culeA do what be he may the cat will mew there are euch such things as its guna guns and at that dy by jove a happy thought get one they say you roll can kill a cat with an at I 1 dou dout t inow know how many yards I 1 fie fiet you hurt poor barm less 1095 necessary pussy t besides you forget dear that a cat b bis as nine lives uh oh no I 1 wont won t do a thing to poor pussy did you ever lear anything like it in your life loveson ahta put me Hs nn dr i ers in hie his eara ears and gazed desperately around for a missile and arid then continued hia his wife if you vere were to a cat you woid be filled with remorse and haunted by a ghostly tabby tor for the rost of your da a didn t I 1 aee see you rel release ease a struggling fly from th I 1 sticky paper orl or L keeps in the kitchen they are no good anyway per listed misted tho the poet with ith growing oving gr wrath they ther ought as a public nuisance to bo be exterminated they catch mke mite not ae as well as a mousetrap an I 1 they are cruel and treacherous the ther don dont t kill t b h e I 1 r V r e ey Y right of 1 ther aa as other and aalf respecting do but needs must make sport of it and sub ab eject it to the refinement of torture and they are that deceitful and ca pricious you never know hon has to take them just like women somebody raya says somewhere that if a cat has nine lives a woman has nino cats lives oh ohl that Is lit of course other women you are not like other women what do you know about other women pray demanded mrs alra loveson ahta alsta with a suspicion of asperity and flushing slightly nothing nothing of coarse fron from personal experience my dear but they have the reputation if its a well known fact oh Is it UT Inde indeed edl t yei and as I 1 am saying went oa on the poet evasively they are no good they are utterly worthless they are fit it for nothing on earth the cat cats I 1 mean well manufacturers make muffs and boas and all kinds of things with the skins do they then im glad to know the brutes serve some useful pur purpose pos when they are dead now a dog I 1 never mind about dogs we are talking about cats and ay my purpose Is asby to prove that they JU are good for noth w ing i YZ I 1 yes ive heard beard 9 V oc of it raining cats and dogs I 1 in tome some part parts of france they eat cats you nent look incredulous they do they call cill them gibler de la Is rue street gaint gan Kand and in a stew TI woul tnt t know the difference bet a cat and a rabbit you have tasted it oh no I 1 denied lira mrs logeson hastily at least not to my knowl edge but ive read about it then they are principally useful as dainty to tickle the palates of french epicures I 1 lake it I 1 nan t in belne any more waya ways ban man jon loa have enumerated in which thy they caa can render service to mankind they ther are useful aa as timepieces tIme pieces 11 hat 1 I 1 am perfectly s arlous in they erve serve as very handy bandy clocks if its this vay the eyeball of a cat contracts constantly conet antly from dan davin until noon at which hour it la Is meely a thin horizontal line from noon the eyeball gradually dilates until it reaches full expansion at sun stin to on n so that in places where there are no n clocks or dial dials or where there ar 0 O diala dials and the day la IS TW irr I 1 cloudy a chinaman just aft picks up pa a cat sad icarus the hour by aking at ite its cyca eyes I 1 bad had no idea that you had made it special study of cat lore but there a is no use talking you vassar graduate graduates know everything under the aun sun cats have still another virtue rheumatism can be cured by rubbing the affected part with a ginser ginzer colored pu cusay say you are a veritable dear that la Is nothing I 1 hive lota lots of tal anta ants you haven t yet discovered however that will do for the present an I 1 it now behooves beho ovea you the duet having terminated to sit right down and lu in date an odo ode to the cat of cats Strop strophe heg to a rat cat batas catas tropha I 1 cant can t do it but I 1 will dash oft off rhapsodic stanzas ad to the moat most adorable little chun chem plon wha who ever defend defended Ld the cause of cat cats 0 |