If he is so long...then how
"tall" is he? He has to be tall...you just can't be long! So how
"tall" is he?
Gentle Sam:
Tall...no...short...well, you might
say so, but I'm not sure that would be very accurate. Well is Sam isn't tall or
short he must be medium. No he certainly isn't medium anything. No...you would
have to say Sam is very long...the kind of long that when he enters the room you keep
waiting to see when he will finally get all the way in. That kind of long.
Sam loves people. He loves to sit in a
corner and watch them move about a room. He loves to hear the rustle of their feet
as they pass him by on the thick gray carpet. And most of all, he loves
to hear them...mutter...mutter...and they speak to one another.
Sam dreams of being able to rustle about and mutter to
friends. He will close his eyes and just picture it. But so far in his life he
had not met anyone like himself. So he had to be content with sitting in corners...and
watching and listening....Sometimes people would comment on him...how very lovely he
was...so soft...and green...so very long. And Sam the Gentle Cat would just purr
away...even though they couldn't hear him...for Sam was a "Take Along Mural" who
could be rolled up and set just anywhere...and when it was time he would be rolled out for
all to admire. He was made up of what ever his creator could find. And the
week he was made...his creator had found several bags of green fluff and flannel...at a
local junk shop. So with Sam in his mind, his creator had hurried home...to make
him...just right...while he held the picture of Sam in his mind. And Sam had turned
out better then he had hoped...and had made him famous. Sam had started an entire new art
form....fuzzy carry rounds...for all your rooms needs. But Sam was the first...the
original...and people came from the world over...to sit and stand...and peer at him.
And written along the top of his face were the words " Gentle Sam...a Cat for
all Moods..."
Gentle Sam by
Jo Jansen