Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-24
CUTE oues AND CARS.
Specimens OF Both Live in Scranton, Pa.
II These Stories Are Truo.

Ahoo0 SCOrfcB Are TruC.
man in the southern part of Scran-
ton, writes New York Tribune corre-
spondent, missed several OF his young
black Hamburg chickens carly in the
summer, and for awhile he laid tho
theft to neighbours big cat, but finally
caught the culprit, and it wasn't the old
cat it was black and tan dog that be-
longed to family fvo blocks away, and
1t seized downy little chicken and ran
of with 1T right before the oyes of tho
astonished owner. He chased the dog,
but soon lost sight of it. In day or
so the dog returned and stole another
chicken. This time tho man traced tho
dog to its home, and caught it with the
chicken in its possession. The family
begged him not to kill their children's
pot, paid him for all the chickens he
had lost, and saved the dogs life.
A small Scotch terrier belonging to a
man who lives near one of the Scranton
hotels got In the notion early in tho
summer of following the hotel omnibus
TO the railroad stations. He came near
being run over one morning, and after
that the driver scared the dog back
whenever he started to tag along behind
tho vehicle. There was good hiding
place under the hotel veranda, and in it
the dog kept shady until the driver had
mounted his seat. Then he stole out,
and before tho omnibus had got fairly
under way, no hoped upon the rear
step and hung like o mailer as the
omnibus jolted and rumbled over the
rough wooden pavement down to the
station. Before the driver had time to
get down the dog was mingling with tho
crowd, where he stayed until the driver
was ready to start back, when he
sought his perch again. The cunning
animal had dono this number Of times
before the driver found it out from o
gentleman who had been watching tho
dog, and it pleased the drive=- 30 much
that he let the dog have his own way
after that, and the interesting brute
continues to ride back and forth on the
step.
A Jefferson township farmer owns q
she cat which, whenever the swallows
begin to fly low just before rain dur
ing the summer, steals away to cov-
erod drain by the roadside, hiding her.
self in the open ond. From the little
walled space sho can look far down tho
road and see tho swallows as they sail
along close to the surface, but the
birds can't see her. When they get al
most over tho spot puss springs out and
pulls down swallow with as much
certainty and grace as the fielders of
tho New York giants pull down fly.
balls.
Druggist John Fl. Phelps has a
mother cat with peculiar habit, formed
when her three kittens were old enough
TO lap milk, carly in the season. Milk
for them all was poured into q small
mortar in tho rear Of the store. The
heads of the three kittens took up
nbont all the space there was. Several
times the old cat tried to get her nose
in the mortar while her little ones
wore tapping the milk, but she found
that she would have to push one of tho
kittens aside If sho did so. After having
watched tho kittens for minute or
two, the mother cat very carefully and
slowly pushed her left paw between
two of them, touched the milk gently,
and then pulled her paw out and licked
the milk off. She kept this up until
the kittens had got their fill and moved
back TO wash their faces, and oven then
Bhe stuck in her paw and licked it of.
The habit grew upon her, and when tho
kittens were In the cellar she would
come upstairs and poke her paw into
the milk and Lick 1t off for forty or
fifty times In succession. Puss has
never Tapped milk since.
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