A CAT’S LIVELY EXPERIENCE WITH BEES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1875, 26 February 1880, Page 3

A CAT’S LIVELY EXPERIENCE WITH BEES.

Charles Kaiser, who has the only Live of bees in town, says that when he first got his colony, his old cat’s curiosity was much excited in regard to the doings of the little insects, to the like of which she had never seen. At first she watched their comings and doings at a distance. Then she flattened herself upon the ground and crept along toward the hive with tail horizontal and quivering. It was clearly evident that she thought the bee some new kind of game. Finally she took up a position at the entrance of the hive, and when a bee came in or started out, made a dab at it with her paws. This went on for a time without attracting the attention of the {habitants of the hive. Presently however old Tabby struck and crushed a bee on the edge of the opening to the hive. The smell of the crushed bee alarmed and enraged the whole colony. Bees by the score poured forth and darted into the fur of the astonished cat. Tabby rolled herself in the grass, spitting, spluttering, biting, clawing, and squalling as a cat never squalled before. She appeared a mere mass of fur and bees. She was at length hauled away from the hive with a garden rake, at a cost of several stings to her rescuer. Even after she had been taken to a distant part of the grounds the bees stuck to Tabby’s fur, and about once in two minutes she would utter an unearthly “yowl,” and bounce a full yard into the air. Two or throe days after the adventure Tabby was caught by her owner, who took her by the neck and threw her down near the hive. No sooner did she strike the ground than she gave a squall, and at a single bound reached the top of the fence, full six feet high. There she clung for a moment, with a tail as big as a rolling pin, when with another bound and squall she was out of sight, and did not again put in an appearance for more than a week.—“ Virginia City Enterprise.”