Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — Two Cats. [ARTICLE]

Two Cats.

A lover of cats relates the following; “One day for some reason the dinner was postponed, but the cat game in at the usual hour. She was evidently much disconcerted at seeing nothing going on, walked once or twice discontentedly round the table, then disappeared. Shortly afterward she returned with a mouse, which she laid on her master’s plate, then going away, she came back a second time with a mouse, which she put on her own plate, She postponed further proceedings until her masteris return, when she immediately began to pur and rub herself against liis legs, as much as to say, “See how nicely I have provided for yon.” “Between this town and the village of Holyweed therei is a country house which happened to take fire last week. The cat of the house, which had access to tbe servant-maid’s apartments, ran up and pawed the young waman’s face. Beiiig very drowsy, the girl turned to sleep again. The cat, however, after some interval returned, and proceeded to scratch the gild’s face to such purpose that she awoke and, smelling the fire, wakened the other members of the house, and the flames yere extinguished.”