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Show HISS IS IN NATURE OF BLUFF. Sound Emitted by Cat as a Protection . Against Enemies. "Do you know why a cat hisses when in rage or anger?" said a nature student "Well, sir, she hlsBes as a flying criminal puts on goggles and a false beard. With that hiss she tries Instinctively to disguise herself as a snake. "Did you ever notice the markings on a cat's tall? They are transverse, like a snake's markings. The primitive primi-tive cat in tho wild state lived in rather rath-er tail grass. When danger approached ap-proached he hissed, and at the same time put up his tall and waved it slowly. slow-ly. The oucomer heard that serpentine serpen-tine hiss; he saw tho tall and only . tho tall which waved in ominous, ser-pontlno ser-pontlno manner; he said, 'Snako In the grass and withdrew. . "The cat of to-day, hissing horribly and waving to and fro his erected tail, follows ancestral precedent It helps him net at all, nevertheless he always ioes it thinking it the right thing. Is not man sometimes like the cat in this respect?" |