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by Mark SteynTales for Our Time #5October 31, 2017Rudyard Kipling's own illustration for "The Cat That Walked By Himself"It is a grim Halloween in New York City. I will have some further thoughts as the facts emerge.In more traditional observance, we have a scary movie for you, or, if you prefer, an even scarier video, and some truly terrifying audio. But, aside from the usual horrors, I thought this year we'd offer something a little different. Earlier this month, after our Sunday Poem, Mark Steyn Club Founding Member Robert Meador wrote with a request:...Well, I've always loved that particular tale. A lot of the Just So Stories are delightful and whimsical, but "The Cat That Walked By Himself" is also profound. So I took up Robert's suggestion and am pleased to offer it here as a Halloween bonus for Steyn Club members. It's a tale of domestication - from the days when "the Tame animals were wild": The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild...https://www.steynonline.com/8228/a-cat-for-halloweenhttps://www.steynonline.com/club/
