East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-05-11
Original asliseellany.
just a Word About Cats.

Just q Word About Cats.
In the rear of our boarding house,
that is, on the opposite lot and front
ing on another street, is hotel with
sheds, stables and outhouses attached.
Adjoining these premises are other
sheds and buildings belonging to all
sorts of trades people, and used for
all sorts of purposes--not emitting a
confederation of boxes from which
papers are dispensed. On these said
sheds sundry cats hold conventions
We do not know how many cats there
are in the First Ward of East Sagi-
nav. Indeed we never heard that
they are included in the census. But
we infer that they constitute, so far
as numbers are concerned, very res
pectable portion of the residents OF
the ward, and here they do congre-
gate on moonlight nights to do their
gossiping. They come creeping up
the boards that lean up against the
buildings, stealing along the tops OF
the fences and under the shadows of
wood piles, or climbing down by the
water pipes, set themselves down upon
their tails in the moonlight and begin
their discussions. Some Of them are
exceedingly tonguey-some are quar-
relsome and make great blowing in
language spoken by no civilized ma
ton that we know Of; some are pug
nacious and insist upon having fight.
Some people like cats and there is
no law that we know Of against in
dulging their liking in this respect
Some people love to sleep o nights
and we know of no law against that
either. These are matters of taste in
which everybody has a right to indulge
without responsibility to anybody else ;
and if we are inclined to sleep, say
between the hours of eleven and two
at night, we take it that our neighbors
have no right to let loose upon us a
whole regiment Of cats and set them
splitting and growing, screaming and
whining, snarling and scolding, going
through with all the notes from A
sharp to g fat in the catterwauling
gammut, under ones window. That
is interfering with vested rights. We
cannot at this moment refer to the
section Of the statute or the passage
in any learned commentary on the
common laws expressly prohibiting il,
but in the language of the immortal
Writ We insist that 1--WE arenot bound
to grope our way among the ruins of
antiquity, to stumble over obsolete
statutes or delve among the ponderous
tones Of blackletter law in search of
principle written in living letters
upon every human heart" May be it
is not printed in book at all, but if
it is not, then it is a part Of the "ler
non scripta" and the sooner it is made
known to the owner of great brin-
die lobby the better for him or her.
The same may be said with reference
to q great yellow maltese, rather with
a tail like q lady's boa and eyes like
to gilt breakfast plates, and voice
like hand organ out of tune. These
two animals are the leaders Of band
of discordant music. Pshaw! Talk
about music in an octagon Of cats sit
ting on their launches or standing
with backs bent out and curved like
so many allsgatorssick with the cholic,
each putting in his best without refer
enoe to pitch, tune, unison or harmony
Of souud-call that music There may
be something musical to . fAneiful or
poetic mind in the screams Of steam
whistle, in the roar Of an escape pipe,
in the fling Of q huge saw, or the
the shrek Of wagon wheel on . dry
sxls, but music in concert of cats at