The creature did its best to
impersonate a cat. Its fur was a perfectly thick glossy black and its
ears had the proper points. It pretended to enjoy activities like
batting at things and snuggling with carpeted pillars. Its disguise
wasn't perfect, though. It had no tail, its eyes lacked the proper
slits, and it misunderstood that cats claw at things for the sake of
clawing, and not to prepare a thing for eating. Still its disguise
was good enough to keep him undetected on the planet for many months,
in which time he learned that though mankind seemed eager to serve
him, any being which could not tell the difference between a real cat
and a lousy fake would make for terrible slaves.
- Originally mailed to S. Gill of Ocean Springs, Mississippi
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