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Show Fair" Tale A- -VAHY GRAHAM- BONNER '-' t T't"- utv-t-'t union . ... SERVAL AND CAT "There are people who brag about their family trees," said the Wild Cat, and I don't understand how a family of people have a family of trees." "Oh," said the Wild Cut's neighbor, "they don't mean they have a tree made of the family. "What they mean Is that they all belQng to grandmothers and grandfathers grand-fathers of great importance and who are very high-up people." "I suppose they're called fandly trees because they're high up," said the Wild Cat, "though lots of trees aren't very high, come to think of it." "No," said the neighbor, "that has nothing to do with It. "A family tree all depends on whether a creature has grandmothers and grandfathers and great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers. Don't you see?" "But then every one would have a family tree," said the .Wild Cat, "and I didn't think every one had." ".My dear. Wild Cat," said the neighbor, neigh-bor, "there are grandmothers and grandmothers." "I suppose so," agreed the Wild Cat. "But I mean," explained the neighbor, neigh-bor, "that some grandmothers are high up and some aren't." "Some are snobs and others aren't, eh?" asked the Wild Cat. "Yes, that's about it," said his neighbor. UUIII HP! "Pray Explain It to Me." "So that is what they mean by a family tree?" said the Wild Cat. "Yes, that's about It," said his neighbor. neigh-bor. "It's all very well to have one, but unless a creature amounts to something some-thing himself I don't see how he can think he is fine simply because his grandfather was." Just then another neighbor of the Wild Cat's looked about him. "I wish to boast," he said. "To hear my name, my fine and dignified name, my name which means nothing and yet which means everything, one would never believe I was a cat, eh?" asked the Serval. "Why does your name mean everything every-thing and nothing?" asked the Wild Cat. "That sounds rather queer to me. In fact it sounds quite impossible." "Ah, but it isn't," said the Serval. "Then pray explain it to me," said the Wild Cat. "The name of Serval sounds very dignified," said the Serval. "Well, 1 suppose so if you want to think it does," said the Wild Cat. "And it means nothing iti one way because it doesn't tell any secrets. It doesn't tell folks th:rt I'm everything!" "Well, well, well," said the Wild Cat, "that is bragging a little bit too much." "Not at all," said the Serval. "I am from Africa. That is a long way f?ora the zoo. ' "It's interestiing to think that my home is so far off." "Well, it depends on what one thinks Is interesting," seid the Wild Cat. "Of course," continued the Serral, "and I think that that is interesting. "When one thinks of the Serval. one thinks of a beautiful little spotted oat, a rare cat, a cat with thin and handsome hand-some long legs, a tiny head, a delicately deli-cately shaped body and beautiful ro-md i spots." "That's all very true," said the Wild i Cat. "but of course if no one were to think of Serval. one wouldn't think of all those things." "Ah." said the Serval, "very true, but I fool there are enough sensible people in the world who or sometimes think of the rare Serval family or spotted cats." |