£240 a Year from a Cattery.
iJnyeiiilfl readers are familiar/with. -t the story of Diok, antL ; > his , cat. It is a mark of tho sceptical 1 • pessimism of the age we live in,tha fc a school of Vandals, have bee ,n : ; devoting tliemsolyes to the destro: ■, ing of 'nil the, pleasant delusions of": i oiiryputlyand they' oven go so "far" • H s } to assert that Wliittington iv jyjjfpossessed any feline, pet, ; nn'[i' jj, s 'f P l 'ti;;tiiat tlie existence of anVm®. •;>"< son of-the_ name, of uiider the circamstimces : desf< •nbi>d is '' mythological/ 't. h l! l . amb «^ sld ei' 6t W ntiimes to - ■ 9 ' j'f commerce,' 11 -pater: famiI Vl s, ; wli^yer,. jnterktirig''-V went occurs m Miy; ( ,. C oatce]lar, & '' ■ceß,down the population bym^s^a:tab^to.- I '.tordini, , to Sylvia fc 'a' certain "Mrs puller is milijF q Ul^e acomfortable-i". igsgonow.ft-days,from ■ CI te ,'y lier pictmcbip Country' ' liouseinSJ'm re y» Sho i ' i'ei-BmU kitteiifj i>lnchfotct 0 * "Fcce, cats grey t blue, black'and h ™ j®" ;i toiau-ijlie] 11, tqbljp.'dreamjand ™ ..es,Siamese,Malays (umlh front, ■rf: to £s).with some of wliich-'shd- ' ®'auies oft pii/ea at shonb 'Hitlieifo :' ; V A: vi>:.V i
in the colonics ilio cat.has beonmore ft sourci of ruinous loss than profit. But honeoferth tho irate lodgor who is awakened from his dream of bliss by the unearthly wails of tho neighbour's pussy will hesitate about recklessly throwing away his boots, glove trees, trousers, hair-brush, shaving box, and other miscellaneous missiles in a vain and exasperating : attempt to smash a folino animal which may form tho libelous of a fortune.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4875, 13 November 1894, Page 2
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256£240 a Year from a Cattery. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4875, 13 November 1894, Page 2
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