Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-04-13
TIE CITIZEN.
FOUGHT WITH A CALICO CAT.
And Finding Ii an Easy Victim the
Feline victor Has Become De-
rnuraliEed.

Ont on the West side with q 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, and there
is an absence Of fun 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 ii is sad.
A year ago he was frisldng kitten,
with good home, a good name, and
I 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 all strange cats with a
glad smile, and much of his time was
spent at the aforesaid neighbor's yard,
frolicling with a kitten of his own
age who dweIt there, or basking in the
sun under the watchful eye of the kit
/ tens mother.
Victor had reached the comparative
~ mature age of nine months, and was
\ large and strong for his age, when he
returned home one afternoon from a
| playful hour spent with the neighbor's
/ kitten. Mrs, Parker had just put the
finishing touches to calico cat she
was making for the neighbor's baby.
The calico cat, plump from an abun-
| dance of cotton, had been placed in
n corner of the sitting-room, so that
| It was. the first object that greeted
V.ctor's gaze when he entered the
apartment
Victor may have been hungry, and
1t may have been the prosperous look
| of the stuffed cat that Jared upon
his usually o6mplacent spirit. At any
rate, Victor bristled up, and with
| declaration of war wildly 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 a frenzy of
rage. The two rolled over and over,
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 n cat was puffed
up with conceit, that cat was Victor.
| lie went proudly out of the house for
| fresh foes % 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 Re would have more thereof. Ii
was an easy task to vanquish the
nCighbor's kitten, the same afternoon
| that he demolished his calico rival.
| As an appetizer for breakfast the next
morning he sailed forth and fought
| with the neighbor's kittens mother.
| lie left a large scratch on the neigh
| bor's baby's hand when the baby tried
to dissuade him from his bloody pur-
suit, and the baby shed large, juicy
tears. Let no guilty eat escape" was
| his motto.
Daily complaints about the disgrace
full exploits of Master Victor were
brought TO the ears of gentle Mrs.
Parker. She called him naughty kitty"
in tones that were meant to be stern,
but he only gave her scornful looks
Victor simply would fight.
But like all great fighters, he at last
| met his Waterloo. \ black cat of row
ing propensities and green eyes recent
ly strayed into the neighborhood. He
was a large, muscular cat. Victor heard
| of his arrival, and Kissing VILLAIN, thou
shalt die!" between his clinched 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 a mighty rush.
The air was filled with yowls, fur,
and dust, and they clinched and rolled
over and over, They separated, but
met again, the strange cat scoring a
great point by closing one of his adj
versary's" eyes \ moment later, and
the strange cat spat out one Of Victor's
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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