Show II Evel 1 T Tale le leY Y i JN ARY GR GRAHAM HAM BONNER BOWER O T n lI a CH er JOTA JOT A THE CAT The Tile other dR day Jota the cat was hungry There Is really no IlU reason on wh why Jota should ever eyer feel hungry for he gets ets so much good food all nIl the time c. c But nn anyway wn he did feel hungry lie wanted something In the pantry and the pantry door was closed The room dining door was a n kind of door he could push open but the pantry pantry pan pan- try door was one of those horrid doors which had bad to be undone in some mysterious mysterious mys mys- way lie hind had often otten watched the time family use their hands and und their lingers Hug In some way to fo to turn the knob of the thedoor thedoor thedoor door and when thc they did that time tIle thedoor door opened But nut he couldn't do It himself and now that he wanted to go Into the pantry It was vcr very hard lIe He knew perfectly well 11 there was wasI I Ih ti 5 mu muI I 1 a r rI I I 1 L. L 1 a Now I Have It a n saucer in the pantry with some milk In it itHe He lie knew because he had left It thore there himself when he had found foun it quite Impossible to eat an anything more How now he did wish now that he had taken all an of his milk at dinner time Now he couldn't get into the pantry It seemed as us though everyone must be out He ne couldn't find anyone to come and open the door for him hm and no one to whom he could give a n hint of what he wanted It was especially sad because he knew there was milk In the pantry and If It only the family were home he would simply have ha to give little purring purring pur pur- rin ring sounds and stand near the pantry doo door He lIe went out on the front steps and I looked up and down the street I Not a soul was in sight lIe He went wenton on the hack back porch and saw no one onen In n the garden sarden lie file got up on a chair In the dining room and looked out of ot the window but still he couldn't couldn't- see anyone And then he lie decided that he was stupid that stupid that if children and grownups could open a door a cI clever cIer er cat cut should be able to do so too Then he had an nn idea Yes Jota Tota had a real l Idea ea lie Je went Into his masters master's study and upset the wastepaper wastepaper wastepaper waste- waste paper basket Then he be pushed it Into the dining room an and along toward the pantry door When he lie had finished pushing e Se basket and when It was right up bythe bythe by bythe the door he be turned It upside down and climbed upon it It There thought Jota now 1 I have hae haveit it it And he had lIe He opened the door with his two front paws turning the knob until It was undone and md he could push the door open Then he moved the basket away awa and went Inside There was the milk milk milk- In fn the time saucer and Jota had a n nice drink But the family were so proud when they came home nn and found what their clever Jota had been able to do Thos told tod everyone about It and from the way things were were they could lust just see how he lie had thought It all out all all by his cat sel self |