The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-07-19
From The Ladies' Offering |
CATS.

BY CID.
! ITO the better understanding of the following
article, will state that the Ladies Offering is the
title of manuscript weekly. conducted by the
Lalies' Literary Society of Maumee City. We
have been permitted to glance over its beautiful
pages, which TEEN with original thoughts, and
reflect much credit upon the Society. Certainly
the Cfering will ever be cherished by the members
of the Society its merit demands and with
what pleasure they will in after years look upon
its pages evidence of time well spent. We
should like to enrich our columns with farther
extracts from its pages, had we the privilege to do
| so -ED.l
am going to write few words about
cats. Almost every animal, and objects of
every kind, beneath the armament, has at
sometime been written about. Butpoor Puss,
has been shamefully neglected. To be sure,
we have known her to be incidentally alluded
to, but never to my knowledge, have known
of an instance where the writer paid her the
respect 10 devote the article to her exclusive
ly, and heads it, as have done-"CATs''
In our last "offsring," appeared very
happy article on Frogs, and their peculiar
characteristics, written by "Will." Those
amphibious songsers were very kindly treat
ed by the writer. He-"Will"-gives them
the credit OF possessing more of the human
nature than possibly could have accorded
them, with my existing aut-ifrog pio,livities.
l hate frogs in every sense of the word.-I
don't like their personal appearauce"-I
GoA't like their singing--and can't like them
cooked-fricassecd, nor in soup. The result
of one experiment, satisfied me that if they
are ever palatable, it will be when liam igno-
rant of what l am eating can remember
nothing in the past pleasantly associated with
them, excepting the fun have had chucking
stones at them. use 10 experience pecu-
liar delight when passing a pond, or mud
creek, and hearing one of these French favor
ties singing to find his location as nearly as
possible, and then to fire a stone at the spot
with all the force l could muster. The quiet
that invariably followed, the instant the stone
touched the water, always had its effect on
me generally resulting in a soliloquy-part
ly tacit, and partly out-spoken-like this =
"Did l hit him | almost hope not y I'll bet
he swallowed water with that last note"
In closing his article, "Will' evinced no little
sympathy for these croakers; promising to
lend his influence to hasten that "good time,
coming" when there will needs be no fear
on their paat, of getting a tooth knocked ont
by such malicious boys as l was, when young.
: All, Cats! I troth I'd nearly forgotten, 1
promised 10 write about Cats. But, before l
forget it, want to ask those who heard the
article on frogs, if they, like myself didn't
feel, while listning to them the next evening
their music was less Objectionable than usu-
al?
Well let us see what can be said about
your feline animals. That the cat is a car
nivarious quadruped, we all know but the
history of the race-of what country it was
originally indigenous or not, it now
inhabits all countries, and is as here, "a
domestic animal, and if so, has it degenera-
ted, or, are its qualities better now than those
, Of the olden time ?-are questions, which,
1 confess never before entered my brain.
Many cherish perfect hatred of the cat,
So stronge is the antipathy of such, that
they cannot endure the presence of one. 1t
is not so with me, like cats. loved them
| in childhood, and l like them now, because
r loved them then. ! cannot, of course, fon.
: die and caress them as affectonately, and
with so much pleasure now, as then; but
involuntarily, whenever meet one in the
parlor- notice it with pleasure, probably out
D of respect for the memory OF those Of its kin
dred that were my play fellows in childhood
e And what harmless, pleasant little play.fel
e lows, those dear little kittens were Who
does not remember of running Just as hare
as he or she could, with long string be
hind and little kitten scampering for tn,
q q end of it? Kittens were great pets will
me. Let me get three pretty kittens to play
and then I was just as happy as they
e What an agreeable feeling was that whicl
It use to rise within me, sfte. getting them
fad saucer Of nice, warm, new mix, and Bet