SCRAPS OF NATURAL HISTORY.
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(SFECIALtr WRITTEN TOR "THE PRESS. 1 ')
131. LONG FASTING CAT
An acquaintance who had heen engaged in match-lining an outside room which he designed tor a workshop, was called away suddenly on business, and locked up tho room safely on his departure. During tho next thrco weeKs—twenty, aays to bo exact—lie was absent in Kunedm or travelling elsewhere, and on returning proeeeueu to continue nis work. Tne house cat, had been reported and no wonder, for on unlocking tne out&me room, it was discovered there, accidentally shut, in. So far as we know thero were no mice about tao place, or anything which the cat could eat or drink, and naturally she was ma very bad condition. W ben found .she was too weak to stand unaided, but was able to lap new milk eagerly; and "all's well that ends well," her recovery is now complete. Bv'tho way, we may have heard the storY of the unfortunate little blumchild, who considered iteelf. happy with "quite a good cat" which it had found lying dead upon a dust-heap; but recently I was told of another use for such" an apparently valueless object. For instanco* you know of si pool in the stream where "tho big trout busy with family affairs are suffering from the depredations of poachers. Therefore it is desirable that the trout should forsake tho pool, and hero are the directions to that effect. Take a dead cat —it must bo a black one, according to instruction—and fasten it with a short, length of cord to a heavy weight. Throw tho lot into thc pool, and not a trout or salmon will go within yards of the.poor beast swaying sideways in the current.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 16
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290SCRAPS OF NATURAL HISTORY. Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 16
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