The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-12
The Cat.

Cats are curious cattle. The are sell
fish. They are grasping. When the
attributes were parceled cut among the
animals, the catgut the gift of music.
She got it by violins.
No one knows where cats come from,
but since the fashion of seal sacques
came in everybody knows where most
of them 90 TO. But this is kept = pro
found secret among the owners OF seal
of secrecy upon it. Purrhaps they ale
wise.
The cat has uine lives that is To say.
she lives nine times longer han she
ought.
This suggests u problem, which lov
ers Of mathematics there are those,
alas who love thcm-can puzzle ose.:
If it takes nine tailors to make one
live man. and nine lives TO make one
cat, what does Il ~c.tamOunt t. tCof-
respondents sending answers will please
enclose u three cent stamp. not for pub
licaLion, bui for the use of the compiler
Of his authentic hlstory-)
The cat is not subject to tax. Efforts
have been made to insert aclause in he
dog law to include cats, but thus far
TIC CdlS u i tiCil y" ia
Not only do they escape tax, but the
ta1-idermist also. They do their own
stufhng.
At the time Of the food Father Noah
endeavored to keep the cat out of tie
ark, but the cat got her back up and
passed in under the guise Of a camel.
Until very recently every ship has
since that time carried q Cat.
Many stories are told Of the seafaring
cat, including nine tails, which are
often fed.
La Egypt cats were regarded as sacred
animals. To kill enc was IN oflcnse
punishable with death.
The cat remembers this, and to this
day takes a fence on the slightest pro-
vocation.
Formerly, when a cat died. all the
inmates of the house went into mourn
ing. Now the household go out into
the night and erect bootjacks to its
memory. They don't 90 home till
morning.
The Egyptians ~worsbipped a cat
headed deity, and mariners, who chung
to old superstitions, still set up catheads
in their ships.
The Egyptian cat lived in q dark
age; the modern cat closes her exls-
tence in a sausage.
Catskins were a favorite dress trim
ming in the middle ages, whence arose
the proverb that a skinned cat is better
than it looks.
The cats kin are now exclusively
used as a trimming. for back fen
A catkin is a young cat, and is great
on the spring. la the spring she may
be seen among the topmost branches
of the willows.
Cats were introduced into England
from the Island Of Cyprus. They are
not found in the cypress now: only on
willows.
In ancient Wales a cat fetched the
same price as a calf. Her modern walls
now frequently fetch a whole cowhide
in the sape Of boot leather.
Cats are Baptists by profession, but
those those who indulge the predilec
ton during early kittenhOod seldom
survive.
Cat are very mewsical. They are all
base singers. The nocturne is their
favo rite composition.
Nox is their especial deity. Knocks
always accompany their concerts.
Cats do not open their eyes until
niue days old. DO they ever close
them sgain9 Nein. Throw a beotjack
at a sleeping cat and you will be con-
vinced of this.
Cats are supposed to be ~accomplices
Of witches, which is probably because
they love the darkness rather than
light.
1t is said that cats are cleverer han
dogs and more easily trained. They
are great pedestrians and can max
more lays in a given time than any
ether animal.
They are generally healthy, notwith-
standing we. hear of ''the cat ill upon
a thousand bills"
A great many more things might be
said about the cat.
But silent be, it is the cat Boston
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