It Was a Cat.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 223, 8 October 1887, Page 2

It Was a Cat.

Wife (to husband who has just returned' home) — " Wliat's the news- down-trwn V Husband—" Nothing." " Of ccurse nob !" " Why of course nob ?" " Oh, welL there is never any news for a< woman unless she finds it out for herself." After a long silence the husband" breaks in with : ' "Itdcesfeem tome that people ought td be.more careful." " What about ?" " 1 was thinking o? something thafc occurred down town lajfc night. Major Buxter and bis family saf out on the froni) step 3 until quite late, and when the maior got up and went into his room he had notinoticed that his prankish little son hJL slipped away. Just &a the major stepped, into his room he heard something under tho bed — in fact saw something — and thinking that a robber had secreted himself there, he seized a pistol and fired under the bed, anr I—"'1 — "' " Meiclful heavens, and shot bia lite son !" " Who said he shot his son ?" " You said h"« son went under the bed !'* "I didn't." "What did you cay?" " I said that the m^ior did not notice his son when he slipped away from the front steps." " And wasn't the boy under the bedf* " No, a cat was under the bed." " You aie the most hateful man I ever saw." "Why so? Just because the boy did not go under the bed and got shot ? I had nothing to do with it, I assure you." — " Arkau&as Traveller."