AT THE SIGN OF THE JUMPING CAT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 342, 31 October 1908, Page 9

AT THE SIGN OF THE JUMPING CAT.

(Fob The Dominion.) ' There's .'a club in our town of the best of renown >pr:' ('Tis political—that. were a moral), Where the membership's strong, the subscript ■ • tiou-quite long, And the members themselves . sometimes quarrel. We have rights for set speeches appointed t8 ' ' teach us ' • ' 1 What's'what, and who's who,'and "all that; For other things, too: and amusement we woo ' At the sign of the jumping cat. How deep and how wise was the devise (For, of course, to this club I belong)' That a body so famed should so aptly bo named From an inn also famous in song! And, go where'you jvill, auy place you like fill. Look'for holes square'or round: lean or fat You will always find members—Mays, Augusts, Decembers, .. . v ■ Of the club' of the jumping cat. Though, as I have said, politics are the "bread That. v vre nourish our, spirits withal, Yet no subject is banned; it is purposely, planned ' That ourselves we should Liberal call. To religion and'.science each-other's defiance '. Allaying with arguments pat, ' Ethics, history, art, "meet the. rest trimmed ... and smart In the club of the jumping cat. In the opopsite way to the fashion to-day AVe open .our doors to the sex; For the arts we delight in, they're splendidly, ■-bright in, And .so the dear creatures can't vex. . ■ But if- "Mere men" be peevish, devices «J • thievish, '. They have to cure spleen that a brat ' - .' Might be fed with decorum in-sanctum sano* i torum i ■ Of the.club of the jumping cat. In this club you will-find all the best'of eacli , kind " • Making up the great world on one side. ■ We liave f*reat Mr. Law—he is rather a bore; Sweet .mincing 'Miss Shoppe is our pride; And, of fashion the cap, young Senn Suall's a ' chap • 'We could die for. There's. nothing whereat, Us to mirth to provoke, sticks dear old Bordy Gyoke . In the club, of the jumping cat. But that young De Trop, or Miss Malapropos, Good and kind as we think them, we bar; Even nice young l J laice Hunter or smart old ' De Punter ' • ,'. Would be out if ho ventured so far - "; As such folk to propose. . For no conleur. de rose ' Or if whitewash could save them. No spat Were more stolid than we, resolved good form to be ■ > At the club of the jumping cat. In. so well-met a.body disgruntled Tom Noddy Calling spades by their names lias no place; \Wo in short ban all those Whom- their records disclose' , . ' ■- • To be dull enough precept to faceTo rule twenty declares it good feeling impairs j Strong opinion's to utter. No rat Is more shunned ttlian the wretch who un« dressed truth would fetch . To tho club of the jumping cat. Thus, our "pills" are 'a oaution and often the portion .. ... Of. presumption and pertness and pride. To amuse, be amused, need by nono be abused, So we set' severe morals aside. If a candidate claims that by serious aims None is hurt, we know what he'd be at: The black ball's his dose, and the doors gently close Of the club,of the jumping cat. If a member goes down in the public renown We aro sorry, but what would you "have? We, can't risk existence to bolster resistance, Arid quite the best people to brave. So we plainly convey, he or she if away Would be thought of the better. Fiat. Our most gracious expression wraps up the recession From the club of the jumping cat. . "F. V. WATERS. October 8, 1903.