The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-10
Feline Sagacity.

A New Hampshire paper tells the
following:
s. Last year Mr.. Charley Edgerly, of
Meredith, owned cat which was a
regular hunter. He would often go off
and bring in rabbits If any of the
family would go berrying, Tommy would
go too, and devote his energies to wild
game. If he became separated from the
party, he would climb tree and ascer-
tain the direction to head himself to
find them. He could catch birds on
trees and the boys of the family, know
ing the propensity of squirrels to take to
fences and stone walls when in danger,
would put him on a wall and alarm the
game. Ono afternoon Tommy caught
fifteen squirrels in this manner. He
would wait any length of time when put
in place and told to stay there.
One day he brought rat and laid it
at the feet of Mr.. Edgerly, who took out
his knife and skinned it. Pussy sur
veyed the operation with intense inter-
est, and seemed highly pleased with it.
Mr.. Edgerly said, ''go and get another
and the cat went and returned at intervals
during the day with three more, which
were duly skinned under feline superin-
tendence. Mr. Edgerly told the cat
that he would skin all that it could
catch; and henceforth made it his sole
occupation to catch the rodents and see
| their hides removed. The skins of the
rats were fastened on the barn at the
| distance of few feet from the ground.
| Thirty trophies were in time dis
played on the barn. One day this fe-
line Nimrod brought in rat and laid
it at Mr.. Edgerly's feet. He was busy
at the time and could not crafty the
animal with the usual skinning opera
ton. The cat laid it at his feet three
successive times, and was finally re-
pulsed in such manner that Tommy
went off with his tail and back up in the
peculiar stiff gait which enraged animals
have. From that day not rat would
he catch, though other small game con-
tinued to suffer as of old.
But now comes the wonderful part of
the tale. On the night of the day in
which he became SO mortally offended,
Tommy went to the barn and tore down
the hides of the thirty-seven victims, to
} show his resentment of the insult. Such
i case is rarely heard of, and so we re-
cord it for our readers, old and young.
Though he would keep all his old habits,
such as skating (for he would slide in
the best manner nc was able, on the ice,
whenever the boys went), he never again
: was known to catch rat to the day of
: his death, which happened few months
,, afterward by his being caught in fox
trap.
/, No Go.-The following bit of romance
is the richest we have heard of for a long
time. A gentleman living on Boise river
became very anxious for a wife, and
agreed to give certain Justice of the
Peace, living in the county, fifty dollars
if he would find any woman who would
marry him. All arrangements were
made between the anxious one and the
j. p. The j. 2. made it business to
} find some one who would sail out on the
l sea of life with an unknown gentleman.
: The object of search was found-the
J anxious gentleman sent for. The couple
, were perfectly satisfied with each others
appearance and much ado made over
their happy future. The evening passed
off pleasantly until the one so easily
r wooed and won called for deck of cards
5 and began to try fortunes (she is said to
be a fortune teller.) The deck was
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fortune of her husband in prospect He
cut the cards; alas! what sorry cut
3 for him. He cut the Jack with legs up!
: This was more than the second party
: could bear, and she exclaimed, in &C.
cents wild, "My God! my God! I've
lost my-husband." She vowed she
: would never marry man who would
+ cut the Jack on the first turn, and with
e his legs up. Thus ended little hit O
Boise valley romance. The gentleman
! is trying to sell his clothes at half thei
cost, and the j. p. is trying to fix. VI
/ matters and have the couple united, fo
he says he wants the $50 Be careful
i young men, and see your "keerd" befor
you show it to the lady, and never Gu
l. the Jack with legs up-Boise Democrat
!. 'Tis wondrous strange how great tn
change since was in my teens then
. had beau, and billet-doux, and joine,
| the pavest scenes Rut lovars NOW hav