PARISIAN CAT-KILLERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1665, 26 November 1887, Page 3

PARISIAN CAT-KILLERS.

" Cat-killers are numerous, out the few who monopolise the trade make a great deal of money out of it. They walk through Paris about midknight with a sack and a couple of terriers, and when they catch sight of a stray puss off go the dogs, who seldom return to thoir master without their prize. Their skins are sold to J furriers and their flesh to the keepers t of eating-houses in the suburbs, where " rabbit-stew "is a favorite dish. But for stewed rabbits one likes to be satisfied that a bunny has been sacrificed, so the workmen who delight < in this dainty require to see a rabbit's head as a proof of the bona fides of the dish. This would puzzle an ordinary individual, but the " cat-killer " ii a genius, and a Frenchman, and is not so easily disposed of. tie also deals in rabbit skins, and has an arrange- [ ment with the cooks in the neighbouri hood to let him have the heads at the same time as the skins of the rabbits , for his penny or two. By this in- ' genious method he is enabled to send ' out to his customers two or three cats' 1 bodies minus tails, with each rabbit|s • head, and one more dainty dish is 1 added to the Parisian menu, and eight or ten shillings to the well-filled purse ' of the exterminator of the feline race.