The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-09

What can do for your said the Lord
Mayor.
81 am the direct descendant of Dick
Whittington's cat" said Puss. At this
the Lord Mayor bowed so low that he
split seam in the back of his coat.
go on, sir" he said. Il am listening"
Il wish permission to rent Albert Hall
in order to give dinner to all the home
less cats in London"
But they are a nuisance" said the
Lord Mayor. They've had dinners
enough. 1 wish they would stop eoting
from now on. I can't sleep at night for
their yowling. I wish they were trans
ported beyond seas
"Will you furnish a ship if i agree to
send them to Australian"
Most certainly will, and I will have
the King create you a knight of the Or
der of The Silver Whiskers,'' said the
Lord Mayor.
You're a brick" said Puss
"Er-what?" spluttered the Lord Mayor.
This was a little too familiar.
II mean by that most Noble, and so
forth. and so forth, successor Of Rich
ard Wilmington, that you are worthy
of your high position, and If you will give
me the permit L will see to making the
arrangements"
In just six hours from that time bill
stickers were running all over London
posting big posters bearing a picture Of
Puss in Boots and reading as follows:
ITO the Homeless Cats of London:
Ye cats who are thin and We who are
thinner,
Stop making that din and come and get
dinner.
Come one and come all to the great AL
bert Hall.
Make no caterwaul, but come when I
call
Now listen to me, the dinner is free;
Tomorrow twill be at prompt half-past
three.
(Signed) Puss in Boots"
Well, this notice caused a good deal Of
excitement among Londoners and also
among those cats who could read. but
candor compels me to say that with the
exception of Puss himself there was not
one cat who could read a word and the
notice was more for the purpose of maxi
ing a stir among the humans. Buss liked
nothing so well as to be taking charge
of some big thing. AS for a large attend
ance, he knew how to manage that.
Robin Taylor and Mother Goose and
the Giants and the rest went out to AL
bert Hall and arranged any quantity of
wooden platters on the floor in each of
which was large piece of fresh meat
At 2 O'clock not a cat had come near
the hail. although the streets were lined
with people and the police were out to
preserve order. and great many people
thought that the whole affair was a hoax
But Puss knew what he was about. He
intended to call in the aid of Cinderella's
godmother. He had bought a large num-
Der of bags of catnip. and at o'clock he
sent the fairy all over London with them.
She was mounted on a fairy wheel, and
In just half an hour she had made
trail of catnip in every street and alley
in the metropolis. All the trails led to
Albert Hall and every cat who smelled
that delicious odor followed the trial
/ am afraid that there were some who
were not homeless in the crowd, but GER
tainly every tramp cat within twenty
miles was there.
Somewhere in Mother Goose's Rhymes
some one says You never saw such a
sight in your life as three blind mice
wonder what he would have thought
Of such a sight as 5000, 600 wila-eyed md
hungry cats. The streets for blocks
around looked as If they were carpeted
with restless furs. Black and white and
tortoise-shell and gray and tiger and
mouse color and Maltese and their COM
binations. And noise! The roar of the
city was swallowed up In the miaows and
news and yawps and yowls Of those
cats. When every last cat was assem-
bled Puss came out on the roof of Albert
Hall and addressed them In cat language.
What he said l can only guess, as / new
studied the tongue, but when he had
finished every cat stood on his hind legs
and opened his mouth wide, and every
human being within earshot clapped his
fingers 10 his ears and retreated a block.
Maybe you have heard n thousand steam
whistles celebrating che coming OF the
New Year. Well, they were a penny
trumpet compared to the shreks OF those
cats. They say that Il was heard an
over England and IN some parts OF
France, but I'm sure that is an exagger-
alton, because the wind was from the
south and would have been far more like
v to Garry the noise Up into Scotland,