SAVED BY A CAT.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 7

SAVED BY A CAT.

During the time when England wu.s rent and torn by civil strife between the two factions represented by the red and white roses, Sir Henry Wyatt, a brave and noble soldier, wore the red rose, and after a brilliant victory won by his enemies, was captured and imprisoned— so the record tells us— " in a cold and dark tower." Here he was allowed to languish, unsupplied with sufficient food to keep the wheels of life moving on. In vain he begged his gaoler to increase his allowance, but fearing to disobey those who ruled over him the man refused. _ One day Sir Henry discovered that a visitor had made her way into his dark and narrow cell. She purred and rubbed against him, and soon the knight and the newcomer were fast friends. Every day she came for a while through a narrow aperture in the wall, and day by day the attachment grew. Whether in the course of their interviews Sir Henry told his new friend how hungry he was we do not know. Perhaps it was only pusss desire to show her affection for him ; but one day she came lugging something ia her mouth, and soon she laid a fine tat pigeon at the knight's feet. Here was food, and just in time to save his life. The gaoler was not heartless, and though he dared not buy food for his prisoner, he did not refuse to cook what the knight supplied. In the course of a little while puss brought another bird. Ihen one came every day. Sir Henry began to recover and grow strong. Finally tas enemies learning how miraculously his liie had been preserved, granted him a pardon. You can imagine, after this, how grateiul the knight was to puss. To show his feelings towards her, the old chronicle says, " Perhaps you will not find his picture anywhere but with a cat beside him."