A NAPIER YARK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2189, 9 January 1886, Page 2

A NAPIER YARK.

The Napier Telegraph Publishes the following ;-Wet(ive. the following story for what each of our readers may think it is worth. " A certain gentleman aaya he was sitting in his back yard, talking to soine friends, when his attention was called to a hen jvith a brood of young chicken?, and a largo fat, that had emerged from its hole, arid was quietly, regarding the young chickens with the prospect of a meal in view. As the rat came from, his hole the house-cat awoke from her. afternoon nap, and caught sjghfc of. the rat. Crouching low, shu pjteij developments ■ and stood to, spring upon' his, ra Mf P- At the. appearance of hjs ancient enemy, the.cat, a' Scotch, terrier, wbjpli had been sunriin?;itself iii the. pricked aitfajuetjy inade. for.the. place wherejthe cat ajopd;.; A$ %' m* ■"W-W'^ttj*o«tfe; 'Him Tfee

".■■:,'.■■ , ■■ ... vv:>V'fflfrp.s chickens wore; not;cognizant-Uikbeing'"" watched by tho rat,' nor did the fataeethe cat, nor:the feline the dog,'who had noticed not tlierboy. A;little,;ohiek < wandered too nigh,' and he was seized by , the rat, which in turn was pounced upon ' by the cat, and the cat was caught in the = mouth of the dog. The rat would nut * cease his hold on the chicken, and the ut, in spite of the shaking sho was getting from the dog, did rijfc letgo tho rat, It was fun for the boy, and in high glee ho *' watched the contest and the struggle of each of the victims/ It seemed to: him that the rat was about to escape after a time, and getting a stone he liurledit at f tho rodent. The aim''was not good, and the stone struck the dog right between the eyes. The terrier released his grip , on the cat and fell over dead, It had hardly breathed its last before thecal 'in.' turn let go tho rat and tunkoverand .died. The rat did not lonfflßfflits enemy, and beside the aSHbad chicken, he laid himself dswßßHßra up the ghost,. Tho owner of Hffißg so angry at his death tlmt lflSHWto have come near making the flB»&plete by killing the boy that ISWuq dog that shook the cat that the rat that bit the chicken in the yard on - —street; ■ . . ~ '