Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — A Cat Story. [ARTICLE]

A Cat Story.

A man now living in Kingston emigrated to the West many years ago, and bought a house which had stood unoccupied for a considerable time. The first night lie heard sounds which convinced him that there were rats in the cellar, and on investigation he found that hundreds of the creatures were disporting themselves there. Having eaten a quarter of beef down to the bone, they were playing tag among the shelves and boxes. He offered to introduce the family cat, but she declined to be presente<l. The next day she was missing, and the family thought they had lost her; but on the fourth day a familiar “meow” was heard, and there was tabby at the head of a column of three dozen catsjn light match - ing order, their backs up and their tails rampant. The front door was opened and the detachment moved down the cellar stairs in good order. The. next morning a flour barrel full of dead rats was buried behind the house, and the cats returned to their homes. — New York Tribune.