INSTINCT IN A CAT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 25, 12 January 1878, Page 3

INSTINCT IN A CAT.

. The following anecdote almost places the cat on a level with the dog : — " A physician of Lyons was requested to inquire into a murder that had been committed on a woman of that city. In consequence of this request he went to the habitation of the deceased, where he found her extended lifeless on the floor, weltering m her blood. A large white cat was;mounted on the cornice of a cupboard, at the far end of the apartment, where he seemed to have taken refuge. He sat motionless, with' his eyes fixed on the corpse, and his attitude and looks expressing horror and affright. The following, morning he was found m the same station and attitude, and when the room was filled with officers of justice, neither the clattering of the soldiers' arms, nor the loud conversation of the company, could, m the least degree divert his attention. As soon, however, as the suspected persons were brought m, his eyes glared with increased fury, his hair bristled, he darted into the middle of the apartment, where he stopped for a moment to gaze at them, and then precipitately retreated under the bed. The countenances of the assassins were disconcerted, and riJßfey were now, for the first time, Abandoned by their atrocious audacity."