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A CAT THAT BAITS BIRDSs. |
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Killed by a Rabbit--Swallowed by a Trout. L
Norruwoon, N. Y., March 30.—The |
usaal crowd had gathered ac the post |
office the other day, just after dinner, to |
wait for the mail, when the conversation
tarned on cats. Budd Davis, who lives
over at Wheelertowa, had had a hunting {
cat that he said could beat anything in |
Herkimer county catching game. An |
almost incredible number of chipmunks, 1
red squirrels and birds had been brought |
in by it, he said. It had, in fact, con
trary to cat nature, killed more game than
it could possibly eat, and, by leaving the
carcasses about the woodshed and 1n the
woodbox, in the kitchen, had made itself
a nuisance to Mrs, Davis,
*‘But the earnest thing about that cat
is the way it ketches snowbirds—l never
heard of such a cat. You know how
snowbirds likes hay seed. The ecat
seems to have caught on to it. The
snow’s all trampled down in front of the
barn where the cows stand around, and
it's a great place for snowbirds, too,
‘cause when the wind blows it rattles
the seed out the timothy sticking out
the windows over the barn floor, |
“But I should think the hay would
get all covered with snow, so the seed
couldn’t rattle,”” objected a histener. |
“Naw, it don’t. The barn faces the
South, and the eaves shed it off. As I was
saying, the seed rattles down there, and
the snowbirds come in the biggest flock
I ever see. It was the softest snap for
that cat—humph! Any ot ier cat would
have been tickled to death with that
snap. But not mine. No, siree! She
can’t wait for the wind to rattle down
the seed, but has to go up on. the hay
and claw around there till ske’s got the
seed scattered over the ground. Then
she gets around the corner and sits
there like a man on a runaway, and
waits till the birds come. Now, that's
what I call reasoning powers.”
““That reminds me of Dan Maginnis’
cat over at White Lake Corners,” 'said
the drummer for a Utica grocery house,
who happened to be present. “You
know Dan? Ever see his cat? Big
black and white fellow—regular Jim
slicker. It's dead now. Couple of
weeks ago Jim’s boy caught a big buck
rabbit. He was out with the dog, and
the dogchased the rabbit into a brush
heap. The boy skipped around on the
other side, and the dog began to claw its
way to the hole, and out came the rab
bit on the kid's side, and he grabbed it
by the nap of the neck and its hind legs
and brought it in. Made him sweat,
though, it was so strong.
‘“Well, he took it out to the barn and
putit in the empty grain bin. Say, that
boy’s got sporting blood in him, h: has.
Ever see him? His mame's Dan, too.
He put the rabbit in the grain bin, and
then went and got the cat and took it
out there. Ihg Dan, he saw him, and
went along to see the capers. He offered
to bet a quarter the cat couldn’t cat:h
the rabbit in ten minutes’ and the boy
took him up, willing to back his own
fighter, see ?
‘*So they put the cat in the further
corner and turned it loose, and then Dan
saw he’d loose his bet. That rabbit
just turned round half facing the cat
and gritted his testh. They both said
80, or I wouldn’t have believed it. The
cat began creeping up with its belly
dragging on the floor until about three
feet from the rabbit, when it gathered
itself together and sprang at the rabbit
—Kker biff! yeow! What do you think
happened? I'll tell you. The rabbit
just ducked his head and the cat got
hold of his shoulder instead of the back
of his neck, as he had aimed to, and then
the rabbit reached around, bit the cat
on the front leg, flopped over on its
back, and, with one swoop of those hind
legs, kicked the innards all out of the
cat and knocked it half way across the
bin.” As it lay there kicking, the rabbit
got on his haunches again and began
spitting out cat hairs and looking as un
conscious as if he had been chewing
birch buds instead.”’
The deep silence that followed this
was broken after a little by Uncle Jim
mie Keyes.
“I don’t remember to ha’ heard of
that 'ere afore,”” he said, “nor any sich
doin’s; though, as I've s2id many a time,
I don’t have no truck with h;{min’, and
couldn’ expect to express :m)A_‘ opinion,
But you know thore's, some mighty big
trout up in Mud Tom’'s hole, near my
house. I guess some on ye has seen
’em as long as a hand-saw there. I i
won’t pretend to say how big I've seen
"em, but speaking of cats reminds me of ‘
what happened one day last summer—
no, let me see; it must ha’ been in May.
Anyhow, we have a few cats at our house
—some of you might ha’ noticed that we
had, when driving by—mnot many; I
don’t guess we've more’n a dozen now,
out we had coovsiderable many last
pring. As I was remarking, that story
»f Dan Maginnis’ cat reminds me of 'em,
I went down to the edge of the hole one
day, aad what should I see next minute
but. one of our cats about half way|
across the hole swimmin’ the best ]icks,
it knew how, with his head toward the
fur shore, but before I could pucker my'
motth to say scat, 1 sce one of ’em big
trout comin’. I jist held my brcnth‘}
while that big trout scooted, and the|
next minute he grabbed the catand|
down she went; yes, sir—swallowed her
alive and kicking,
A silence wore profound than befoie
reigned for an interval, and then l'ust-;
master Odit said: ‘
“Um—ah—Jimmah, how Lig do youi
say that trout was 2"’ |
“Well, Gus, ’course [ don't know!
nothin’ about it, but ef I was to guess
I'd say it wasn't less nor twenty-oue
inches long.”
The postmaster looked around at the
store cat stretched ovt at full length on
the counter.
“Jimmie, was any of that cat sticking
out of the trout’s mouth after she was
swallowed ?’
“No, sir, there wasn’t.”
“Not even the end of the tail 2’
‘‘Naw, nary a hair.”
fesure P’
“Sartin. She was one of a litter jist
borned that mornin’, and I was drownin’ |
‘em fo: luck.” |
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The Man Who Laughs. |
The man whose ha! ha! reaches from
one end of the street to the other may be
the same fellow who scolded his wife
and spanked the baby before he got the
breakfast, says the St. Louis Republican,
but his langhter is only the crackle of
thorns under *he pot. The man who
spreads his laughter through his life—
before a late breakfast, when he misses
the train; when his wife goes visiting
and he has to eat acold supper; the man
'who can laughjwhen he finds a button off
his shirt; when the furnace fire goes
out in the night and both of the twins
come down with the measles at the same
‘time—he's the fellow that's needed. He
‘never tells his neighbor to have faith.
Somehow he puts faith into him.
He delivers no homilies; the sight of
his beaming face, the sound of his happy
voice and the sight of his blessed daily
hife carry convictions that words have no
power to give. The blues flee before
him as the fog before the west wind; he
comes into his own home like a flood of
sunshine over a meadow of blooming
buttercups, and his wife and children
blossom into his presence like June
rcses. His home is redolent with sym
pathy and love. The neighborhood is
better for his life and somebody will
learn of him that laughter is better than
tears. The world needs this man. Why
are there so few of themw? Can he be cre
ated? Can he be evolved? Why is he not
in every house, turning rain into sun
shine and winter into summer all *round
the yeur until life is a perpetunal season
of joy?
He Wasn’t Penurious.
The economical vein which runs
through some men is positively funny,
says the Soston Journal. A man acci
dentally dropped a penny in a street car.
It fell into a lot of straw which had been
spat upon, trampled under foot, and
nearly robbed of its former semblance to
that clean, fluffy, inviting bed in which
boys delight to roll and tumble.
The owner of that penny at first
kicked the noisome mess about with his
foot. He did not find the penny, and
endeavored to look indifferent, but his
face wore a pained, uncomfortable sort
of expression. He couldn’t endure the
suspense any longer, and forthwith he
began to claw about in the dirty straw
wi h his hands. He picked it up in
small lots and shook it, in the vain hope
that the missing penny would drop out.
He spent at least twenty minutes of the
half hour’s ride from Dudley street to
Milk street in looking for the lost treas
ure, and then gave it up in despair.
Our curiosity was aroused. Is that man
penurious ? No, for he soon spent 25
' cents for two cigars and thirty cents for
! two drinks of whisky for hiwself and a
chanee acquaintance. He bought a pa
-3 per, and gave the boy a nickel, declining
‘to take the 3 cents change. He wasn't
penurious; he wanted to know where
that cent went to, and it vexed his soul
because the elusive coin could not be
tound.
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READY FOR A LYNCHING.
Horrible Crime of a White Man in Greene
County
PENFIELD, April 13—[Special.]—A
<hocking story reached this place from
Woodville yesterday morning. The par
ticulars, as near as I can learn, are as
follows:
It seems that Robert Williams, a citizen
of this county, is guilty of raping his
step-daughter. Yesterday morning when
ceing ont to work he sent the rest of the
children out into one field to work, tak
iny his - ep-daughter, against whom he
had his hellish designs, with him into
another field, seperated some distance
from the other. Sometime during the
morning arotherstep-daughter had some
cause to go over to see Williams about
the work. When she came in sight of
Williams she saw him choking her sis
ter and making a terrible effort to over
come her. Being terribly frighted she
ran screaming to her home and excitedly
told her mother what she had seen.
Several neighbors were quickly summon
ed, and going to Williams immediately
placed him under arrest. He was quick
ly carried to Greensboro jail without the
shocking story leaking out until he was
safely imprisoned. There is some talk
of lynching. , The people are excited.
He married the mother when the girl
was a little child, helped raise her, and
then ruined her. He will be severely
dealt with.
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