A Teddy Bear Does Not

From Serenity Comes Gentleness, Comes Lasting Strength.

A Younger Sister Is Someone To Use As A Guinea-pig In Trying Sledges And Experimental Go-carts. Someone To Send On Messages To Mum. But Someone Who Needs You - Who Comes To You With Bumped Heads, Grazed Knees, Tales Of Persecution. Someone Who Trusts You To Defend Her. Someone Who Thinks You Know The Answers To Almost Everything.

A Cat Can Maintain A Position Of Curled Up Somnolence On Your Knee Until You Are Nearly Upright. To The Last Minute She Hopes Your Conscience Will Get The Better Of You And You Will Settle Down Again.

A Cat Likes To Hear You Calling Him. He Sits In A Bush A Yard From Your Shoes - And Listens.

You Took Me To Adventure And To Love. We Two Have Shared Great Joy And Great Sorrow. And Now I Stand At The Gate Of The Paddock Watching You Run In An Ecstasy Of Freedom, Knowing You Will Return To Stand Quietly, Loyally, Beside Me.