A NOVEL CAT.
A member of the editorial staff of the Cleveland " Leader," it is said, has invented a sheet-iron cat, with cylindrical attachment and steel claws and teeth. It is worked by clock-work. A bellows inside swells up the tail at will to a belligerent size, and, by a tromulo attachment, causes at the same time the patent cat to emit all noises of which the living cat is capable. When you want fun, you wind up your cat and place him upon the roof. Every cat within half a mile hears him, girds on his armour and sallies forth. Frequently' fifty or a hundred attack him at once. No sooner does the patent cat feel the weight of an assailant than his teeth and claws work with lightning rapidity. Adversaries within six feet of him are torn to shreds. Fresh battalions come on to meet a similar fate, and in an hour several bushels of hair, toe-nails, and fiddle-strings alone remain.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 230, 27 June 1872, Page 8
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163A NOVEL CAT. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 230, 27 June 1872, Page 8
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