Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-29
CATS IN BERMUDA.

CATS IN BERMUDA.
HOW THEY BROKE UP FRIENDSHIP THAT
HAD LASTED FOR GENERATIONS.
lou may march the country roads
IN maiden meditation fancy free, by
Held and farm, for no dog win plunge
out at you from unsupported gate,
with breath-taking surprise Of fero-
cious bark, Notwithstanding it is a
Christian and a civilized land. We
saw upward Of million cats in Ber-
muda, but the people. are very abb
stemious in the matter Of dogs. Two
or three nights we prowied the coun-
try far and wide, and never once
were accosted by dog. tits q great
privilege to VISIT such a land. The
cats were no offense when properly
distributed, but when piled they OBJ
structed travel.
As we entered the edge of town
that Sunday afternoon, we stopped
at a cottage TO get q drink Of water.
The proprietor, a middle-aged man
with a. good face, asked us to sit
down and rest. His dame brought
chairs, and we grouped ourselves in
the shade of the trees by the door.
MIR. Smith-that was not his name
but it win answer-questioned rs
about ourselves and our country, and
we answered him truthfully a. q gem
eral thing, and questioned him in re-
turn. TWAS all very simple and
pleasant and sociable. Rural, too
for there was q pig and a small dom
key and a hen anchored out, close at
hand, by cords to their legs, on a
potthat purported to be grassy.
Presently, a woman passed along,
and although she coldly said nothing
she changed the drift of our talk.
Said Smith:
She didn't look this way, you mo-
ticed? Well, she is our next neigh
Dor on one side, and there's another
family that's our next neighbors on
the other side ; but there's general
c~nolness, all around now, and we
don't speak. Yes these three fami-
lies, one generation and another,
have lived here side by side and been
as friendly as weaver Of a hundred
and fifty years, till about a year
agol"
"Why; what calamity could have
been powerful enough to break up 50
old a friendship?"
well, it was too bad, but it
couldn't be helped. 1t happened
like this: About q year or more ago
the rats got to Fostering my place a
good deal, and I set up a steel-trap
in the backyard. Both of these
neighbors run considerable to cats,
and sol warned them about the trap,
because their cats were pretty socia-
BILE around here nights, and they
might get into trouble without my
intending it. Well, they shut up
their cats for awhile, but you know
how it is with people, they get care
less, and sure enough ene night the
trap took Mrs. Jones' principal to
meat into camp, and finished him up
in the morning Mrs. Jones comes
here with her corpse in her mi and
cries and takes on the same as If he
was a child. It was { cat by the
name Of. Yelston-Horror, G.. Yelver.
ton-a troublesome old rip, with ne
more principle than an Injun, though
you couldn't make her believe it. ]
said all a man could to comfort her
but no, nothing would do but I mus
pay for him. Finally, ] said / warn
investing in cats nov al much as
was, and with that she walked off il
a huff, carrying the remains with her
That closed our intercourse with tn
Joneses. Mrs. Jones joined anothe
church, and took her tribe with heI
She said she would not hold fellow
ship with assassins. Well, by and b
comes Mrs. Browns turn-she ths
went by here a minute ago. She ha
a disgracefnl old yellow cat that sh
thought as much of as if he was twin
and one night he tried that trap Q
his neck, and it fitted him 30, m
was SO satisfactory, that he laid dow
and curled up and staid with
Such was the end Of Sir John Bal,
win."
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WAS that the name Of the cats
'vThe same. There's cats arour
here with names that would surpri
you, Maria Ito his wife) ''what "
that eats name that eat a keg frat
bane by mistake over at Hooper
and starred home and got struck
lightning and took the blind staggge
and fell in the well and was me
drowned before they could fish b
out?"
ssThat was that colored Deac'
Jackson's cat. ] only remember t
last end of its name, which was 7
Be-Or-N To Be That~I The Due
ton jackson.
ssSho! that amt the one. Tha'
tho one that eat nm an entire box