LUCKY WHITE CAT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 209, 6 September 1940, Page 2

LUCKY WHITE CAT

FELL DOWN CHIMNEY 48-HOUR IMPRISONMENT Cats will be cats, but it's not often a white one changes its colouring to a hue as black as the ace of spades! That's what happened in Thames one day last week. The local constabulary have ia Sergeant Harrison's family .white cat a great pet. It was only natural, then, that dismay was caused when the animal was found to b„' missing. Two days went by, anil there Avas no sign of the cat. Here the scene changes. The caretaker of the old post, office building was going about her duties when she heard a mewing from somewhere in the vicinity of the fireplace, one of those with the j iron grate and draught flap. She investigated and found that a cat was imprisoned behind the flap. Ser geant Harrison was called and one of his arms groped behind the chimney flap to produce a black paw. Well, that wasn't his cat;' 01% at least, that was the thought in his mind. When the whole cat was produced, however, a small tell-tale patch of white told its own story. The cat had evidently been chasing birds on the roof of the building and the chimney stack being low, it had sprung up there, missed its footing, and fallen two stpreys into the back of the grate. So the police cat has its freedom again, with only one, or possibly two, of its nine "lives'' spent.