The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-22

which [ kept in the hall, I let fly at
the animal, missing her by about an |
inch and unfortunately landing upon |
ii valuable japanese porcelain umbrel |
la stand SCATTERING it to pieces.
She rushed into the dining room, I
after her, up the lace curtains she
climbed, tearing them as she went. l
tried to pull her down but she hung
with the tenacity of muSsel to a low
water rock. Finally down came cur
tains and all, knocking over two of my
wife's best ferns. The string caught
upon nail and pussy hung suspended
in the air. With one swoop | knocked
her to the floor, where she lay an in
animate lump. Tragically l yelled
AT last l have killed you
Just then my wife rushed in sobbing
Historically, "Adolphus, who have you
killed." THE cat" | painted. Then
opening the window | flung her into
the garden. After Strengthening up
things it. was breakfast time. We had
not sat at the table ten minutes when
that Internal cat made her appearance,
| as if nothing had happened. 1t made
me so sick l could not finish my meal.
Grinding my teeth | coaxed her to me.
| Taking the piece of string l passed it
-
strangIe her to death; pulling upon It
with all my might until the string
broke and the cat disappeared. In
desperation | seized my hat and went
, to the city.
That evening on arriving home, the
| first thing my wife said was The cat
| came back, Adolphus.'' l was too dis
| gusted TO answer her, so sat down TO
dinner in silence. Before going to bed
| gave the cat some rough on rats
| upon a piece of meat. Next morning
there sat that cat upon the fence sun
i ming herself. a little thin but still
happy.
My next door neighbor was in the
garden so | asked him if he would
shoot her | shall never forget his eX-
preston. He seemed to enjoy the idea
and went into the house to fetch his
gun. While he was loading it, he was
telling me what a fine shot he was anJ
how many ducks he generally brough
home. The cat sat there as uncon
, cerned as possible. He took aim, bans
, went the piece and over went the cat
: Fetched her first time,' he said. W.
|. went over 10 find the corpse but 1t wa!
: not there The only thing we saw wa!
: the other neighbours gardener standing
, at the conservatory door nOIdlnS nj
leg. shouting that he was shot. Th'
whole shot had gone through the win
dows, hitting the gardener in the leg
. so I had to pay for his pains. / staye(
away from the office, feeling nerVou
i, and miserable l was growing percept
T IDLY thinner every day; that cat husl
- ness was killing me and began u
wonder who would succumb first.
2 During the morning the grocer's DO
, called for orders. | remarked "Dl
@ YOU ever kill cat?" Lots of them,
g he replied So making bargain wit
I him, he was to take the cat away, an
o l to give him a dollar. He caught tn
b cat during the day, then returned i
n the evening to tell me that he and Tor
= Potts had chucked her into the bay.
t slept that night feeling that weigh
/ had been lifted off my mind.
Two weeks later that cat came bach
e looking fat and happy. She must hav
d felt guilty, for she looked at me side
= ways, which made me sick. Putin
:. my hat on I went to the grocer's stOr
2 and giving the boy another dollar, toll
s him to go and kill her over again. HI
t in company with Tom Potts, cam
I around. After discussing a while the
= decided to hang her. While they wer