Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15
Tabby's Curiosity Satisfied.

The Virginia New Enterprise tells
this affecting story: Charles Kaiser
who has the only hive of bees in town,
his old cats curiosity was much excited
in regard to the doings of the little in
sects, the like Of which she had never
before seen. At first she watched their
comings and goings at a distance. She
then Hattened herself upon the ground,
and crept along toward the hive, with
tail horizontal and quivering. 1t WAS
clearly evident that she thought the
bees some new kind of game. Finally
she took up d position at the entrance
to the hive, and when bee came in or
started out made dab at it with her
paw. This went on for a time without
attracting the attention of the inhabi-
tants of the hive. Presently, however,
old Tabby' struck and crushed bee
on the edge of the opening to the hive
The smell of the crushed bee alarmed
and enraged the whole swarm. Bees
by the score poured forth and darted
into the fur of the astonished cat. Tab
by rolled herself IN the grass, splitting,
biting, clawing and squalling as q cat
mere ball of fur and bees as she rolled
and tumbled about. She was at length
hauled away with garden rake, at the
cost Of several severe stings to ,her res
cuer. Even after she had been taken to
distant part of the grounds the bees
stuck IN Tabby's fur, and about once in
two minutes she would utter an unearth-
ly 'yowr and bounce a full yard in the
air On coming down she would try to
scratch an ear, when a sting would
cause her to turn a succession of back
somersaults and keep up a running fire
of squalls. Like the parrot that was
left alone with the monkey, old Tabby
had dreadful time Two or three days
after this adventure Tabby was caught
by her owner, who took her by the neck
and threw her down near the beehive
No sooner did she strike the ground than
she gave fearful squall, and at single
bound reached the top Of a fence full
six feet in height. There she chung for
a moment, with tail as big as a rolling
pin, when with another bound and
squall she was out of sight, and did not
again put IN an appearance for over a
week"
SENSITIVE children are sensitive,
and it is wrong to wantonly wound their
feelings by censuring them too harshly
for their faults. Time cures a great
many things; children outgrow infrmi-
ties and faults, and if right principles Of
action and feeling are instilled gently,
constantly, wisely, the results will ulti-
mately appear. It is mere cruelty to
make the weak points of a child source
of teasing and ridicule, as is often done
in schools and families. A mental in
trinity should be treated as tenderly as
bodily deformity. A quick temper, an
irritable or timorous or teasing DISPOSE
ton, requires far more tact and judic-
ious management than any mere phys
ical infrmity When grown to maturity,
our sensitive children become the poets,
musicians, artists, writer's, leaders Of their
times. Help them, too, with their tasks,
which to many Of them seem hopeless.
Definitions are hard to remember; the
geography lesson is difficult to compre-
bend and won't stay fixed in the mind;
history is dull and dead; arithmetic a
hopeless tangle of figures; and grammar
more pulling than any possible conun-
drum. The little folk need help; they
need cheer and encouragement, and
who should be SO ready, SO willing, so
able to give as the parent?