Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-20
tine sIoayo OF a CAT.

AAedV Cs etOty WnlCn Will DO feaS
With great avidity BY all people interested
in natural history. 1t is 80 true that v,
hesitate to give it, because there 10 nothing
like it in the books and We don't want K
get ahead Of science in our researches.
Dr.. Rrecht, Of Mills 4 Purdy's drug store
is the father Of = baby and the owner of
cat. The former is his delight and the lat
ter the torture of his daily and nightly ex'
lstence. The baby and the cat do not agree
and the cat il in no way disposed to yield Q
point in behalf of the idol ofthe household,
Under these trying circumstances DR.
Brecht resolved to kill the cat, in a humane
way, and let the baby live.
lat Attempt-A dose Of s~trychniue was
procured and offered the cat on a piece OF
porter-house steak, to make it seem tempt
ing. II was promptly devoured and the
doctor went Of down town 60 as not to be-
come q witness to the sgonizing death strug-
giles about to ensue. Meanwhile the cat
stepped out of doors and went through the
usual motions which follow the admiuistra-
ton Of an emetic. At night, when the doc.
tor returned, pussy was there purring cheer.
fully and vigorously. 1t didn't work.
I'd Attempt-More strychnine was::pro.
cured, temptingly surrounded by q slice of
steak and rendered to pussy. She firmly
declined to partake thereof.
3rd Attempt-!The death dodge was
abandoned as impracticable. A Russian
was employed, who conveyed the cat six
miles out in the country and left her there
on the prairie. Doctor retired to bed jubi.
liant. Next morning when the door was
opened the cat lodged in and settled her.
self to stay.
18th attempt-Russian intervention aban-
doned and q Bohemian induced to under
take the task Of Kidding the family of its
unwelcome pet. He carried the cat sixteen
miles away from town and there left her.
Three happy days ensued at the doctors
domicile, but on the fourth her catship trot-
ted smilinGly into the house, shook hands
all around and said she was very sorry she
had been detained so long, but clrcumstan.
ces over which she had no control had com.
PEELED her to make q journey Of some length
into the rural regions.
9Th attempt-The doctor began to grow
furiously determined. There was blood in
his eye. He procured a bag and then 5
large stone. The cat and the stone wer.
crammed into the bag together and Mrs
Brecht sewed up the opening. The docto,
then employed an honest, reliable man te
complete the job. He took the bag, tn,
stone and the cat down to the levee anc
threw them into the Missouri. The mex,
morning the cat was patiently scratching
against the doctors back door for admis
sion.
9th attempt-By this time matters hac
reached q desperate pass in the DOCTOR
household. There was no peace, no rest, nj
anything but that ever present. unkillabl.
feline. 1t was all foolishness wasting 81
much time on n cat. he captured III,
animal, held her down and fastened a larg,
stone to her neck. Then he placed tn.
stone and the tat in a strong bag, sewed il
up and carried the bundle to the river him
self and threw it into the deepest place b,
could find. "Now," he remarked, "rl
stand here and see that you die this time.'
A stream of bubbles arose to the surface
followed, after a moments delay, by the cat
minus bag and minus stone. She swan I,
the bank, eluded her would be destroyer
started of ON a lively gallop and got hom'
several minutes ahead Of the doctor.
9Th MISUNDERSTANDING, banisbment an,
drowning having failed, the doctor, as
last resort decided to have the cat torn int
fragments and scattered to the four wind.
To carry out this horrible design he EN-
ployed large and muscular Rul
rian. The cat and her executioner wer
brought face to face in the back yard. tn
Russian looked his victim carefully owe
and, BY numerous significant movements {
his hands. resembling the tearing to piece
Of . sheet of boiler iron and the maahin
2 Of . wagon load ofquartz with a sixty STAN,
mill, expressed foil confidence in hi
ability to speedily disintegrate the ANNA
The doctor told him to sail in. Whic
/ he did, and after . horrible moment of COZ
aict, in which the air was filled with fl
o and hair and blood and howls of pain an
rage. he sailed out again. The cat hs
d whipped the Russian clean out of the bac
yard and he was ON the retreat when In
seen.
n The cat still lives and holds her accuI
z toned place BY the doctors freside. Ing
nuity has been exhausted. She is safe fro,
further attempts At destruction.
am opening in my store every day ne
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