Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1905 — Gooseberries and a Cat. [ARTICLE]

Gooseberries and a Cat.

Not long ago, says Collier’s Weekly, officials of the department of agriculture were much amused by a letter sent the department by an occasional correspondent in V irginia. Among other things the writer hastened to advise the secretary of the department to this effect: My wife had a Tame cat that dyd. Being a Torture shell and a Grate faverit, we had the same berred in the Gardin, and for the enrichment of the soil I had the Carkis deposited under the roots of a Gooseberry Bush. (The Frute being up to then of the smooth variety.) But the next Seson’s Frute, after the Cat wa* berred, the Gooseberrys was all Hairy—and more Remarkable, the Catapilers of the Same Bush was All of said Hairy description.