FOR THE CHILDREN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 4 August 1923, Page 22

FOR THE CHILDREN.

TALE OF A CAT.

The older you get the more cats and kittens you have met and played with; and so you know that cats and kittens are not all just alike; and, if you met Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith, you would see at once that he is an unusual cat. Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith is not hie real name, for Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith, to keep on calling him by a make-up name, is a very modest cat, and might not like it to be written about in a newspaper. But he has a similar string of names, enough names for five or six ordinary cats, and this is how he got them, and it began when Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith was a kitten. Hβ was named Samuel—only that wasn't really the name he was named, but it will do to tell you about Samuel and yet keep the secret of his real name —and the family of which he became a member was already named Adams— onh-, of course, that isn't their real i name, either—and so he became Samuel Adams. Then the Adamses wont away to live in an apartment where there wasn"t room for a eat, and they left Samuel Adams with their friends the I Thompsons, who liked William Henry I better than Samuel as a name for a eat, .and so he became Samuel Adams WilI Ham Henry Thompson. And thon the Thompsons went to Europe and left Samuel Adams William Henry Thomp-

Before Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith came to live with the family, Mrs. Smith had not cared very much for cats; but t-fter she had known Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith ony a short time, they became very good friends, and after Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith had saved the apple pie in the oven, Mrs. Smith said she was glad they had taken the Thompson's cat. And when the Thompsons came back from Europe, and Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith showed plainly that he intended to stay with the Smiths, Mrs. Smith was glad of it, and said that Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith was her cat. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Samuel Adams William Henry Thompson Smith is that every morning he has a boiled egg for breakfast.

THE CONCEITED CHICK.

"I am the most elegant chick ever hatebe*. If you seek the world through I cannot be matched. J can stand on one les for an hour at a g°> And that's more than the others can <Jo, don't yon know." But a chick who Is prond doesn't have many friends, And sadly this story of Cocky Chick ends; •For the irlnd beard him bragging, and blew him down hill. And knocked him right over; I think he's there atlll!