KILKENNY CATS.
Kveiybodv has li»ml of the two eats of Kilkenny that fought till nothing wm left but their tails). Strange as the tale swrus, th re ut a Bnh-stratum of fact upon which it is founded. Durin? the rebellion in Ireland in 1803, Kilkenny was garrisoned by a troop of Hessian soldiers, who amused themselves in barracks by tying two cats together by their tails and throwing them across a clothes-line to fight. The officers, hearing .of the cruel practice, resolved to stop it, and deputed one of their number to wnteh. 'I ho soldiers, on their part, set ut man to watch for the coming officer. One clay the sentinel neglected his duty, and the heavy tramp of the officer was heard ascend- J ing the stairs. One of the troopers, seizing a swoid, cut the tails in two as I the animals hung aeroas the line. The! two calh escaped, minus their tails, f.hrhnirh the open window; and when Hie oliicrr inquired the meaning of the two bleeding tails ■ being left in the room, he was coolly told that two cats bad been fighting, and had devoured each other, all but their tails.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2313, 5 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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196KILKENNY CATS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2313, 5 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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