The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-04-07
an lrrepressIble PqsEY.
RY MAX ADELER,

Wo heve been trying to lose our
cat. W. are somewhat fond Of her,
but she had a way Of producing kit.
tons every few months in various por.
tions Of the house that was. very disp
greeable /; and on the evenings when
her maternal duties were not urgent
she used to mount the back Icncc and
spit, and fight, and yoyl with a
screoch like afog whistle. So she
became a nuisance, and wc deter,
mined to lose her. had a grudge
against my wife's aunt, and the 6rst
time she came to visit US I gave the
cat to her, aud che took it up to
Philadelphia ,aabout thirty miles, in
q basket. There was onIy one cat
when my aunt started, but when she
got home thei Q were six. The cat
had kittened 10 tho basket on the
| way up. believe the cat would
have had kittens on the top Of the
Baptist Church steeple if sho could
have got there. We had peace
around the house for a couple of
nights; but on the third night We
we're. startled by scream from the
bach yard like tho yell of Conan.
che Indian with the delirum trcnsens.
looked out at the window aud OBJ
served the cat enlarged in IN excited
argument with another cat on the
smoke house roof. She had come
back. The next day I traded her off
for buuch Of beets to a farmer from
over the river In New Jersey, and he
took hsr home. knew then that We
had lost her finally, and rs night af-
ter, night went BY without noise, we
felt glad that she was lost for good.
a few months afterward, as l was
going up to bed, L SAW wet
and dragged animal in the hall
Upon close inspection found that it
was our cat. She had swan the river
and come =; aad she had just bad kit.
tens on the front stairs. The farmer
subsequently made me pay him four
prices for the beets. That evening
che resumed her vooalizAtion on the
back fence, aud from the vigor eho
displayed.1 judge she was trying to
converse with another cat on the 9th.
or side Of the river, two milcs distant.
The next day l lied brick TO-. her
neck aud chucked iler into tho strea N.
Fwo hours afterwards she was iu tho
yard again, damp, and with cord in
her lungs, but still inclined to he
sociabic with the other oats, aud still
able to work off shrek that walked
all tho babies in the neIghborhood.
AS she didn't seem Inclined te stay
lost, | took her out next morning and
hitched her with rope behind the
near car of the express train, and iu
. few moments slhe was proceeding up
the track with frightful velocity,
olawing, and splitting and holleaing
as ohe went ulepg, That afternoon /
drowned the kittens, and just as they
breathed their last, the brakoesau on
tho railroud called and said somebody
had fastened my cut to his train, but
he had rescued hor and brought her
back, for which service no wanted
two dollay, She seemed to have an
unconquerable indisposition to remain
lost. She vas ct n uoh out of repair.
Ono Of her legs was hrokon, but her
voice was sound, and wLilc com.
muning with another cat that evening,
she emitted one wild shrek, which
brought Cooley over to my house
with his gun to ssocrtain who it was
that oricd "Murder !"
A few days aftcrward she had kit.
tens again on the parlor sofa, and
that night hitcbed her to a couple Of
skyrockets had bought and touched
them off. She whixaed fov while
around among the stac4, aud L thought
[ saw the corpse fall ovsc toward
Wilmington bat the next evening,
while coming home from church, [
aaw some cats holding synod in he
front yard. One Of them was our cat.
singed, and little discouraged, but
still capable Of downing out all tho
other cats in a chorus, She still re-
mained ualost.
The following morning carried
der out to Keyser's farm and ran her
through the throsh ng machine, and
she came out mass of pulp and fur.
Then We buried her. But I don't
feol perfectly certain about hor yet.
[ shouldn't be much surprised if sho
would como together ag,in, resur.ect
and come home to have somo more
kittens and few fresh yawls or tho
summit Of that fenoe. II shs doos I
am going to move to Kansas.
Wea!M and insanity.