The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01

sending OF Cats. The mere words on paper were
creepy and uncanny to behold
what nave you done. though7' said the Eng
Hshman; I am as much in the dark as Do
you mean to say that YOU actually send this
absurd Sending you talk about?'
Judge for yourself" said Dana d. What
does that letter mean? In little time they will
all be at my feet and yours. and I. Q Glory. viii
be drugsed or drunk all day long"
Dana Da knew his people
When man who. hates cats wakes up In the
morning and Ands little squirmlng kitten on
his breast puts his hand into his ulster pocket
and finds little half dead kitten where his
gloves should be. or opens his trunk and finds a
vile kitten among his dress shirts. or goes for a
long ride with his macintosh strapped on his
saddle-bow and shakes a little squalling kitten
from Its folds when he opens It, or goes out to
dinner and finds n little blind kitten under his
chair. stays at homo and finds a writing
kitten under the quilt wrigglng among his
boots. or hanging. head downward. in his tobacco
Jar or being mangled by his terrier in the veran-
da-when such hnds kitten. neither
more nor less. day in place where
kitten rightly could or should be- he Is naturally
upset When no dare murder his daily
trove because he believes 1t to be Manifesto
Dodiment, a
dozen othor things all OF the regular course
OF nature, ne Is moro than upset He is actually
distressed. Some OF Lone sahib's co-religionists
thought that he was highly favored Individual;
but many said that II he had treated the nrst
kitten with proper respect-as suited 10th
Ra-Tum sennacherib Embodiment - all this
trouble would have been averted. They COM
pared him to tho Ancient Mariner. but zone tho
hey ~
Englshman who had the Manifestation
They did not call It a Sending because Icelandio
magic not IN their programme
After sixteen kittens. that Is 20 say after ono
fortnight. for there three kittens on the
first day to Impress tho fact of the Sending. tho
whole camp was upiifted by letter--it came
flying through window--trom the Old Man of
the Mounta!ns-the Head of all tbs Creed-e1-
planning the Manifestation in the most beautiful
language and soaking up all the credit OF 1t for
himself. The Englshman said the letter.
not there at all He a backslder without
Power Asceticism. who couldn't even raise a
table by force OF voliton. much less project
army of kittens through space. The entire
rangement. said the letter. strictly ortho-
dox, worked and sanctioned by the highest Au-
thorities within the pale OF the Creed. There
was great Joy at this for OF the weaker
brethren, seeing that outsider who had been
working independent lines could create kit
tens. whereas their rulers had gone
beyond crockery-and broken at that-were
showing Il desire to break line their
trail. In fact there was the promise OF a schism
second Round Robin drafted the Eng
lishman beginning. 20 Scooter" and ending with
a selection OF curses from the Rites OF Mzram
and Memphis and the Combination OF Jusana.
who "ffth-rounder." upon whose name
ar upstart third rounder" once traded A papal
accommodation is billet -doux compared
the Combination OF Jugana- The Englishman
had been proved under the hand and seal of the
Old Man OF the Mountains to have appropriated
Virtue and pretended to have Power which, In
reality. belonged Only to the Supreme Head
Naturally the Round Robin did not spare him.
He handed the letter Dana De to translate
into decent English. The effect Dana Da
curious AT first he furiously angry
and then he laughed for FIVE minutes.
"I had thought" he said. that they would
have In another week 1 would
have shown that L the Sending. and they
would have discrowned the Old Man of tho
Mountains who has sent this Sending OF mine.
DO you DO nothing? The time has come for mo
to act. Write 1 dictate and 1 will put them
to shame. But give ME ten more rupees"