Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — Saved by a Cat. [ARTICLE]

Saved by a Cat.

Sir Eward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London in bis time, bought an ancient house in Yorkshire, and sent his wife and children thither. There were two boys among them. The Pall Mall Gazette tells of a tragedy which occurred at the house soon after. One of the boys, the elder, dutifully obeyed when summoned to his lessons one morning in a turret, but the younger, loitering, “happened to light upon a cat which he delighted to play with, and crept after her to catch her under a table in the room which was covered over-with a earpet Hanging downto the floor,” , Thus te disappeared, and the next ffastant a terrible rusKof wind overthrew the turret, in which nis brother and the tutor sat at work, crushing them to deatliT' Supposing that both her sons were there, the mother fell into convulsions. One of the maids, running in, a distracted manner from rpom to room, caught sight of the small boy peeping from under the table, with the cat in his arms, snatched him up and bore him in ecstasy to his mother, be only crying: “I pray thee, I thee, do not whip me!”