Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1877 — That Stuffed Cat. [ARTICLE]

That Stuffed Cat.

The other day, when a Detroit boy of fourteen bought a stuffed cat at auction, the crowd derided him and had a great deal of fun at his expense. They didn’t know that the boy had a heap of genius and a mountain of bright ideas, and he didn’t tell them. Yesterday morning the lad opened out. in a vacant lot on Cass avenue, having the help of several otner genuises. A clothes-line was stretched from a peg driven at the sidewalk to a fence fifty or sixty feet away, and not over a foot from the ground. By means of straps around the. body and two iron rings, with a stout fish-line to pull on, the cat could be drawn along the rope like a flash and hauled through a hole in the fence. When things were in working order the stuffed teline was placed at the stake, the boys got behind the fence, and the number of dogs which tried to give that cat a cold shaking up was almost beyond count. They strained every nerve to catch her as she was drawn along the rope, and as they followed her through the fence, believing they had a dead sure thing, two boys on either side of the hole let fall four stout clubs with military precision. Each dog seemed to.realize the whole joke in a minute, and the way he started for -home nearly killed the jokers.— Detroit Free Preu.