A CAT OF GOOD MANNERS

Evening Star, Issue 20428, 8 March 1930, Page 9

A CAT OF GOOD MANNERS

Let us explain at once that Jimmy can never be famous as a poet or an artist, for he is a cat. Nor has he performed any heroic deed, such as swimming to rescue a drowning baby, or putting out a fire with his paws, for Jimmy is a real cat. He is merely remarkable for his behaviour at supper After all, did not old William of Wykeham give one of our oldest schools for a motto the good old Manners Makyth Man? _ Jimmy’s friends do well to applaud his goipd manners. When supper time brings all the family home from work, school, and play Jimmy comes too. Chairs are set round the table, and one is set for Jimmy. He refuses to sit anywhere except next to Mother. If someone takes his place he stalks about the floor using, horrid language. Everybody is helped before Jimmy, and he waits patiently, but if Mother forgets him altogether he puts one paw on her arm. Then she cuts up some bread and cheese, and puts it on the plate before him. Bread and choose form Jimmy’s daily supper. When he has finished he walks upstairs to bed by himself. He is only two, and he knows youngsters must go to lied earlier than grown-ups. Let us hope Jimmy will live to enjoy all his nine lives.