CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1899-03-09
FOUGHT WITH A CALICO CAT.
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Ont on the West side, with a family
named Parker. lives a large and sad
eyed cat. His name is Victor, but his
appearance Indicates that he had better
have been christened Vanquished. One
ear is missing, one eye gone, aud there
is an absence of fur on various portions
of his body. His bearing is abject and
his gait sneaking, and a general air Of
might have seen better days" is ap-
parent in his conduct. The story of
Victor's downfall is no less interesting
than it is sad.
with a good home, good name, and a
fine, glossy coat. He was noted for
his gentle ways, never offering violence
to the neighbor's baby when that small
parsonage made tour of the premises
carrying him by the tail. 1t was his
custom to greet ali strange cats with a
glad smile, and much of his time was
spent at the aforesaid neighbours yard.
frolicking with a kitten of his own
age who dwelt there, or basking in the
sun under the watchful eye of the kit
tens mother.
Victor had reached the comparative
ly mature age of nine months, and was
large and strong for his age, when he
returned home one afternoon from n
playful hour spent with the neighbor's
kitten. Mrs. Parker had just put the
finishing touches to a calico cat she
was making for the neighbor's baby.
The calico cat, plump from an abun-
dance of cotton, had been placed in.
corner of the sitting-room, SO that
it was the first object that greeted
Victor's gaze when he entered the
apartment.
Victor may have been hungry, and
it may have been the prosperous look
of the stuffed cat that Jared upon
his usually complacent spirit. At any
rate, Victor bristled up, and with
declaration of war vividly expressed in
that part of his anatomy made use of
by the feline race when reused to
anger, he approached the strange cat
He circled around it several times, and
finally sprang upon it in frenzy of
rage. The two rolled over and over
and the carpet was strewn with cotton
| wool from one side of the room to the
other-before Victor could be separated
from his hated rival.
Thenceforth Victor was a changed
cat. 81 came, saw, / conquered,
seemed to be the dominating thought in
! his mind, and If ever cat was puffed
up with conceit, that cat was Victor
He went proudly out of the house for
fresh foes to vanquish Peace, which
had hitherto reigned within his gentle
breast. was dethroned, and gave way
to wild and lofty ambition. He would
fight every cat in Cook county. He
had tasted blood, or what answered
in the place of blood, in the calico cat.
and he would have more thereof. 1t
was all easy task TO vanquish the
| nsighbor's kitten, the same afternoon
that he demolished his calico rival.
As an appetizer for breakfast the nexi
morning he sailed forth and fought
with the neighbor's kittens mother
He left a large scratch on The neigh
bor's baby's hand when the baby tried
10 dissuade him from his bloody pur-
suit, and the baby shed large, juicy
tears. Let no guilty cat escape was
his motto.
Daily complaints about the disgrace
ful exploits of Master Victor were
brought to the ears OF gentle Mrs.
Parker. She called him naughty kitty
4 fpI tones thar were meant to be stern,
but he only gave her scornful looks.
Victor simply would fight.
| But ike all great fighters. he at last
met his Waterloo. A black cat of row
ing propensities and green eyes recent
| lylstrayed into the neighborhood. He
was a large, muscular eat. Victor heard
of his arrival, and kissing "vilain. thou
shalt diet" between his eiincbed teeth
or words to that effect, he went forth
to meet the newcomer on the field of
honor. The two cats eyed each other
with every evidence of hate. AT last
/ they came together with mighty rush
The air was filed with sowls. fur.
and dust, and they clnched and rolled
over and over. They separated. but
met again, the strange eat scoring a
grent point by closing one of his ad
versary's eyes. A moment later, and
the strange cat spat out one OF Nictor's
1 ears. and in the last round he bit several
choice bites out of the soft part OF his
antagonists anatomy. Then Victor
sneaked home. his coat drenched with
gore. And that cat never smiled again.
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