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Show STOPPING THE TRAFFIC ick and Nancy used to often wonder won-der why Daddy so seldom said any-I any-I thing about the traflic lu the city. Whatever they had been to the city they were always, at first afraid of all ( the noise and the quantities of cars and automobiles and trucks thai moved so quickly along the streets. After they had beea there awhile they realized that everything was so beautifully managed by the big policemen police-men that there was nothing to be frightened at. Hut they always thought that see lug so much trattic was wonderful. "Everything goes Just like clockwork clock-work In the city, doesn't it, Daddy?" asked Nancy one morning. "Yes," said Daddy, "it certainly does, as a rule. "But 1 must tell you of a funny thing that happened oue evening lu a very busy part of the city. "A cat discovered there was a piece of glass broken In the window of a but( r shop. "Now you can Just Imagine how cleverly and neatly and quickly the cat got through that window I "There was one light burning in the shop, although, of course, the shop was closed for the night. "And then didn't the cat have a feast 1 "Never before had she known tbe rUt llii 1 fel Everything She Wanted to Eat. Joy of having everything she wanted to eat at one time with no stopping. "Some people saw what a good time the cat was having and stopped to watch her. "And then more and more people stopped, they were so amused. "It was just like seeing a funny play to see the cat pick out the choicest choic-est morsels of meat and play with them and then eat them. "The crowd of people grew more and more. The street became so crowded that no oue could pass by. "Soon it was so thick with people that the cars and automobiles could not pass. "After the cat had eaten as much as she wanted of all of the butcher's large supply of good things, a watchman watch-man suddenly appeared on the scene. "With the help of a great many men the watchman finally succeeded in getting get-ting the crowd to move, and then he got Into the shop. "But the cat simply' leaped out of the window again and disappeared into in-to a side alley, where probably she lived, as a rule, on bits she could pick up. "Such a looking butcher shop as It was now, for even if the cat had not quite eaten everything, she had tried everything, and she had eaten a surprising sur-prising amount even for a hungry cat. "'Well.' said oue person who had been watching the cat, 'I think that the cat is the cluverest one I have ever seen. " 'Not only does she want to eat, but she knows just when to escape In time after a splemted meal, and what is more wonderful than everything else, she slopped the tiallic of cars and automobiles and trucks and people peo-ple who might have been iu a hurry to gat somewhere." |