CATS’ AND KITTENS’ OPENING ADDRESS.
Reading edition
KIND audience, we wish to say right here, We’re only play cats and kittens dear. (’Twould be absurd for cats to play This entertainment, their parts they could not say), For cats, you know, can only “me-you,” And that we know is Greek to you. Then, if a rat should chance to drop Upon us, why, off we’d pop! All this I tell you for your sake, For fear you’d make a grave mistake, And think that we real catties were. I therefore ask you to suppose That we are dressed up in cats’ clothes.
[All bow, then all together give the following calls as they back to stage back and exit.]
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Werner’s Readings and Recitations No. 35. Copyright, 1906, by Edgar S. Werner.