TWO CATS

Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 7

TWO CATS

AUSTRALIAN STORIES Jn a letter to the London / Spectator ’ S I 1 ’ Uatomnn, writing Irom tlie Hospital, Old Cairo, Egypt, repeats two cat stories from Australia. The truth of the following, he says, was vouched for by a friend Her brother had a favourite cat. He was a sailor, and whenever lie went to sea the cat disappeared until his return. At one time he was shipwrecked. Has family thought that he must have perished, but one day the cat appeared, and the same day the sailor returned, bmally lie was killed by a fall from the ng'dug ami thev never saw the cat again. & The other story might vie with some of those 'in the “Lost and hound competition, if one didnot know the explanation. A man living in Adelaide had a, cat Hint he had tried to get rid of several times by taking it long distances from home and abandoning it. Having occasion to visit some friends at Port Adelaide, he took the cat with him,' tied up in a sack Avith. a heavy stone at the bottom. After leaving his friend's house lie walked to the nvei. took the sack with the struggling cat inside, and flung it into the water. Ho watched for a few minutes to make sure that the cat had not by any chance escaped, and then returned home. Next morning, when ho opened the door, what was his amazement to see the cat on the doorstep. Some time later he happened to meet one of the family he had called on that afternoon and mentioned the incident. His friend then confessed that, knowing he intended to, drown the cat, they had substituted one of their own and had let his go free.