A PHOSPHORESCENT CAT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 29 January 1883, Page 2

A PHOSPHORESCENT CAT.

They had a bilin' old time at the. West Enireoenfcly. -Mr Monkey's boy took the family cat and rubbed phosphorous all over him. It: was, about/« let the cat-go. The hoo-doo began - ■right wiij,--) sie cat wni mto a;ty*WeK' and began Ko yoM,and that aitracted the attention of; the bulldog, and he came along and danced about; andbarked. m and got, terribly excited. It wag a case of "dog in the light, cat in the shadder ;. dog full pf fight,"cat growing'midder." iK Pretty soon the dog upset the barrel and went in after tWcat. /'But in wasi a surprise for him, The phosphorous' glowed in the darkness and he beheld, a cat of fire.' ! He came out barrel and'went ofl howling, as though a.policeman had stepped on him. Then the cat weriti up on the roofs, where other cats dp congregate, .and tried to X chum round with them;; Bitot go. They fled from him as if he werea boot-jack. He did'nt and gave' chase! ■ and as' , there were about. 40 .cats on those roofs, and as they were all scaredj and fled from him,. howling dismally, the sojse .WM.'stae£.sS thing fearful, ,so that. 1 vicinity who heard it were scared' and. ' ■" had cold sweats.- The cats continued to tear about and yell so that it could'nt bo endured. Mr Monkey and. others-' ' got up, and went upon the ' roof 'with* 1 clubs. And the first sight of a fiery cut frightened them, and one lady who saw it screamed and fell through a skylight, and nearly killed a man sleeping beneath it, and made him think Mother i Shipton was right, Finally, ,Mr Mon- ; 1 key and his friends made a desperate chaige on the fiery cat, and the poor cat took a flying leap into the.street. He ; hit a policeman, saving his own life) but nearly scaling the officer out of his V senses, as he thought he was struck by lightning. Ihe cat jumped to the ground, and an astronomer came along took him for an aerolite, and tried to pick him up. To his amazement the > ■ aerolite ran. Then he was scared' too. ; Finally, the cat got into a and someone thought the bam was on fire, and they called out the engines and got seven streams on him. He fought ' - well, but they fixed him. ,And .then; • investigations, showed no fire b'ut . a'x dead cat. And they told the stable- .- ! man he was a crosseyed fool to mistake '. a cats' eyes for a lire, and so they left ■ him, And all the West End is talking of the mysterious fiery, cat,, and only, r voung Monkey understands themys- ' tery. .