The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-01-23

-3sanx cat from the Isle of Man-rag small
fslaha sazdly room ehongh to
turn round) whereCsts are obliged. TOD
do without taiIes It s. consider@ xefy
nice kind of cat, Of which I have doubts. |
It i 8 said that Turner, the great painter
smrOksbly asg0Oda Ejudgspf
cas- eye ved-- kept sev Max cas-
,alWas IN HshsBiae. Psthsbsi t vas ne |
cesar 50 Have seven Manx catssto Get !
the equivalent of a real cat; in my ex-
psFiePGe It gdI1ss Ppres- r~ ~
: AsJ aIdy Idoubt iff.ebiha2 il zeal,
take her altogether She had as kitten,
foEan. Her gEoSrf tsr low ik1as thsn
an men long, ana most Of that is fur III
is exactly like q rabbits tail, that is,
kind of place for a tail. When she first
began to realize her existence she evil
identity thoaght shewas a eatsnd herfrsl
spdFtive efort was toplay[ VITA heritails
She looked around and there WASH t any
tail there; the other end OfszbeEzVas
rabbit. She was mortified > bns shat
could she do? She began without any
apology, to play with her hind leg, 70
chase h. foGnd and 1ouna'as if 1tAwefe q
tsil > Observation-Disclosures atsused !
herself with her hind leg.
And her hind legs are-wofth play iing
with. For they are not ike the hind
Isgs=0f-a-eatz but long. aRdabeRd-
under !exsctly hike the legs OF a rabbit,
When, China sits down she sits down
like. a. Iabbit.s So. she is neither one
| thing or another and / cannot make out
! whether she is a cat trying to be rabsI
bit OF rabbit trying to be cat. She
succeeds, any way. China is-father hand
| some. Her coat is the most beautiful
tFcOmbination Of'spit buff and erhipe fur
"a. most pleasing color-and she is a
most shapeiy little. thing besides, with a
fine head and pretty face. Like some
! other beauties, she. is not as good as she
is beautiful. She has q tempeT-can be
very. playful and safeetionate zone min
ute. and scratch and bite the next with
! out proVocati0n. From an infant she
! seemed to have no conscience. She was
a perfect whirlwind in the house, when
the shin took her to froIic; went over
/ chairs and all sorts of furniture ike a
! flying squirrel; succeeded in about
week in tearing ofail the gimp from the
chairs and lounges, climbed the azalia
! trees, shook off the blossoms, and then
broke the stems. Punishment she minded
not at all-onIy to escape. from it for the
moment. I think she had not, as kitten.
grain Of moral sense, and yet she was
awful cunning" and entertaining
more so than a spoiled child. We got q
sedate old cat to come. and Eve with
China. She drove that big cat out of
the house and off the premises in less
than half a day and that, too, when she
wasn, t. more than seven inches long She
T.we9t at the big cat with Incredible fury,
with all the hlaza and momentum of a
5 LITTLE \ Ee7PalIsT z-,>ya.T AT
Now that China has come to be of de-
cent size, some of the vivacity and plays
fulness has some out OF her, but she is
really untamed-goes for things on the
table, steals, sud all that; and it ismore
difficult than ever to tell whether sire is
"a rabbit or a cat. We have another
companion for her-a mild, staid old
grandmother Of q cat, with very big
sta4l, enough for two, iI-they would share
it,. China treated her with 40 respect;
but, on the whole, they got on well, quar-
re1iDgonIy halFt the time, and consent to
I Hive in the same house. China over ooks
the INTRUSION. ..-.-. ,-.ss.s
But as to the nature of China, this is
what happened recently. China's mis-
tress had undertaken to raise some rad
/ ishes, in advance of the season, in! a box
in her conservatory. It was slow pro-
CESS, owing to lack of heat or lack of.
1 disposition in the radishes to grow.
They came up, shot up, grew slender,
tall, and pale, Occasionally the mistress
would pun up one to see why the bot.
/ tornsadidn't. grow. SO that we could eat
j thsmS hut she never discovered why.
The plants spindled up, all top and no
radish; and by and by they got tired
and laid down to rest. They might in
time come to something. In fact, they
began to look as if they wete thickeniDg
in the stem and going to grow in the
root. One morning they were gone.
! Gone. after weeks of patient watching,
watering, and anxious expectations
Nibbled OF close. to the ground. China
had eaten every one of them short.
Now, doesn't that show that China is
a rabbit Win cat eat Eadish tops
| This is one thing want to know.
There came once to our house a face
tious person; and that is, q person who
makes jokes likely to hurt your feelings;
and he looked at the cat, and said it
didn't matter If it had no tail, that 1
could write one for it, have done so.
But that makes no difference. What
! want to know now from the children
of St! Nicholas IS this: What can / do
with ber9 I can neither give her away
for cat, nor sell her for rabbit. Do
yoa think it would coax tail out of her
/ to put her under blue glass?
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