The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-28
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THE SERVAL.
6y Nary Graham Bonner

Wild Cat. '"The whole cat family is a wild one. We have the right sort of family.
 Now there are people who brag about their family trees. 1 don't know what they really mean for how can a family of people have a family tree?"
 'They may have an apple tree or a pear tree or a peach tree or a cherry tree, but they cannot have a tree known as a family tree"
 "Oh," said the Wild Cats neighbOr, 'they don't mean they have a tree made of the family. What they mean is that they all belong to grandmoth- CTS and grandfathers of great impor- tance and who are very high-up peo- pie"
 "I suppose they're called family trees because they're high up," said the Wild Cat, though lots of trees aren't very high, come to think of it" !"
 "No," said the neighbor, that has nothing to do with it. A family tree all depends on whether a creature has grandmothers and grandfathers and great grandmOthers and great grandfathers Don't you see?'
 "But then everyone would have a family tree" said the Wild Cat, land I dindn't think everyone had"
 My dear Wild Cat," said the neigh bor. there are grandmOthers and grandmothers."
 q suppose so," agreed the Wild Cat.
 "But I mean," said his neighbOr, "that some grandmothers are high up and some aren't.''
 Some are snobs and others aren't, eh?" asked the Wild Cat.
 "'Yes, that's about it," said his neighbor.
 "So that is what they mean by a family tree" said the Wild Cat.
 'It's all very we'll to have one,'' said his neighbOr, ''but unless a creature amounts to something himself I don't see how he can think he is fine be- cause simply his grandfather was."
 Just then another neighbor of the Wild Cats looked about him. "I wish to boast" he said. "To hear my name, my fine and dignified name, my name which means nothing and yet which ul0duS every lAlAS. OLC "OOAN h0'SA believe I was a cat, eh?" asked the Serval.
 "Why does your name mean every thing and nothing?" asked the Wild Cat. That sounds rather queer to me. In fact, 1t sounds quite impos- sible."
 "Ah, but it isn't" said the serval.
 "Then pray explain it to me-" said the Wild Cat.
 "The name of Serval sounds very dignif1ed," said the Serval.
 "Well, I suppose so if you want to think it does," said the Wild Cat.
 q do want to think so and I have thought so and I will think so," said the Serva1.
 And it means nothing in one way because it doesn't tell any secrets. It doesn't tell folks that I'm everything '"
 "WeH, well, we'll" said the Wild Cat, "that is bragging a little bit too much"
 "Not at all," said the Serval. "I am from Africa. That is a long way from the zoo, and it's interesting to think that my home is so far off"
 "Well, it depends on what one thinks is interesting" said the Wild Cat.
 "Of course" said the Serval, "and think that that is interesting. And when one thinks of the Serval, one thinks of a beautiful little spotted cat, a rare cat, a cat with thin and hand some long legs, tiny head, delicate ly shaped body and beautiful round spots"
 "That's all very true," said the Wild Cat, "but of course if no one were to think of Serval, one wouldn't think of all those things"
 "Ah," said the Serval, livery true, but I feel there are enough sensible people in the world who do sometimes think of the rare Serval family of spotted cats !"