Strange matrix elements of the nucleon are calculated within the light
-cone formulation of the meson cloud model. The Q(2) dependence of the
strange vector and axial vector form factors is computed, and the str
angeness radius and magnetic moment extracted, both of which are found
to be very small and slightly negative. Within the same framework one
finds a small but nonzero excess of the antistrange distribution over
the strange at large x. Kaon loops are unlikely, however, to be the s
ource of a large polarized strange quark distribution.