CATS ALOFT
The place for a bird is in a tree and the place for a cat is on the ground, although neither seems to regard this as a law except when the cat finds a bird on the ground or a bird finds a cat in. a tree. Two amorous cats were exploring the topmost branches of a tree yesterday when a jackdaw spotted them, and in a moment the air seemed tilled with jack- daws beating about the tree and setting up such a clamour that the cats quite forgot why they were aloft. The noise of the birds increased. Two old men stopped near me to watch them and then three ladies of the village joined the audience. There is something in the magnetic influence of the eyes of a crowd. Some people revel in it, but cats, like most humans, being a mite introspective, withdraw from it. The tension proved more than they could bear and they sprang out of the tree. The birds dispersed, the old men toddled away and I departed too, leaving the gossips to make something of it, as they surely would!
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