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[Illustration: THE DUCK. "SAY, ARE YOU GOING TO HANG UP YOUR STOCKING ON
CHRISTMAS EVE?"
THE STORK. "NAW! I WANT SOMETHING MORE THAN A TOOTHPICK."]
BOBBY'S COMPOSITION.
THE CAT.
The cat is a small animal with four legs and a long tail. The cat is
covered with cat fur. In the night cats love to roost on the back fence.
They roost lengthways of it, instead of cross ways like a bird or a hen.
When the cat wants to say anything it utters a yowl. No other animal
yowls, except a baby, and its yowl is different. Mostly cats make their
remarks in the night. The baby is not different from the cat in this
respect.
Cats have nine lives, but after a cat has lost one of them she isn't
good for much except a cat-skin. If I was a cat I wouldn't be afraid of
dogs.
Cats' eyes shine in the dark. Once I was up in our garret, and saw a
cat's eyes shining. I came down and went to talking to Ma about things.
She said she thought I went up into the garret to stay awhile. I said,
"No, I staid as long as I intended to."
The cat has an Ann Tipathy for rats. Cats eat rats. Tastes differ. The
Chinese make porcelain cats with yellow glass eyes, and put a candle
inside. When the rats see it they go away on the dead run. Of course
there is no danger. I forget what I went up into the garret for that
time.
The middle of cats' eyes gets big in the dark and small in the light.
Girls like cats. A cat goes up a tree frontwards and comes down
backwards. They go up because they see a dog, and come down when the dog
isn't looking. The more dogs a cat sees the bigger her tail gets. The
cats in the Isle of Man don't have any tails, so they are not afraid of
dogs.
Once we had a cat whose eyes got so big in the dark that you'd have been
afraid if you hadn't known what it was. This was the same cat I saw in
the garret. But, pshaw! I knew what it was right away soon as I got
down!
That's all anybody knows about cats.
* * * * *
THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS.
UNCLE BOB. "What's the matter, Tommy? What makes you look so gloomy?"
TOMMY. "I don't think Santa Claus is a very sensible man. I'd think any
one with as much sperience wouldn't give little boys pumps when their
mammas wouldn't let 'em put any water in 'em."
* * * * *
THE CONCEITED COW.
A haughty cow unto a horse
Remarked, "Why cannot we,
And only we two, practise for
A dual jubilee?
My bass profound is faultless,
While your tenor tremulo
Is heavenly; and our duet
Would please our master so."
With pleading moo she urged her case,
Then sadly turned away,
For the horse looked up disdainfully,
And only answered "Neigh!"
* * * * *
"Oh, mamma!" exclaimed Bobby, "I've thought of the awfulest, dreadfulest
thing. Suppose our chimney should catch fire Christmas eve?"
* * * * *
BOBBY. "Mamma, I don't want any fire in my room to-night."
MAMMA. "Why, you'll freeze."
BOBBY. "I don't mind being cold, but if you leave the fire burn, Santa
Claus won't be able to come down the chimney."
* * * * *
JACK (_to friend on bicycle_). "What's your hurry; are you racing for a
train?"
JOE. "No; I'm training for a race."
* * * * *
BOBBY TAKES TO JOKING.
BOBBY. "I don't see why they talk about the 'Forty Thieves' in the
_Arabian Nights_."
MAMMA. "Why not?"
BOBBY. "'Cos they acted like sixty."
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[Illustration: A CHRISTMAS STOC-KING.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 24, 1895, by Various