The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
"A TALE OF CATS.
Mrs. Bolton Draws a
Lesson on Thought
less Cruelty.
mine KITTENS IN Al SACK.
A Misguided Woman Turns
Them Loose Ono
the Street.
Nine KITTENS IN a. SACK.

Mrs. u. was a neighbor of ours an
unusually cultivated woman, II. who
wrote essays WELL and was looked. up
| to as of superior influence and social
position. Having no children, she was
able to devote her time to the charities
of the city, writes Sarah K. Bolton. in
the Christian Endeavor World bis5w
Her husband being a professional
man, she often accompanied him In bis
visits, liking to be much in the YopeB
| air. One day she said to himyetMy
| dear, we have SO many cats aboutsoNr
barn that will put them in bag, and
| drop them at various houses on my
| Journey ee@
why, they will freeze in this. cold
weather, wife, or perhaps starve.5 Peo-
/ pie are not SO willing to increase their
number of pets as you think ,..T,s-
well, they will be off our hands, and
probably somebody will take care OF
/ them"
| Cant you find homes for them by q
little inquiry among your friends?" s.
| "Oh, l haven't the time. They must
look out for themselves. shall hope
| for the best" N2l1 -
Mrs. D., with her mistaken notions
of kindness-for she was not at heart a
| cruel woman-put nine cats and large
kittens into bag, and during the af-
ternoon, while she and her husband
were driving, she opened the bag and
left the frightened animals here and
there in the snow, perhaps to find a
shelter, more likely to die Of hunger
and cold. sex ,s74s
| IN rf
| ly looking for home, fell into an open
wall which was dry, and after days Of
trying to climb the stone sides, per-
ished miserably gIae
Another was found by the roadside,
with ears and nose frozen, and was
taken by kind-hearted man to his
home, where all the children tried to
save it, by warmth, food and petting;
but exposure had made it fmpossibie
for it to live.
third went to the home of a Wo-
man who fed it, but gave it to her scr,
to cut up, in the supposed interest Of
science, as he was studying TO be a
Doctor
A fourth found a sleeping place in
the barn of farmer, who, though lie
had plenty of milk, never fed ST,
thinking wrongly, as many persons do,
that an animal can Subsist on very lit
Tie, and that little a bone, or mouse
now and then, and not knowing that a
halt-starved dog or cat has little spirit
FOR guarding home or hunting it's
food.
Still another made its way, dazed ana
alone, into the heart of the busy, I'M
mindful city. lady passing an old
shop, on her way to her boarding
house for her dinner, heard faint cry,
and, bending down to an aperture near
the sidewalk, found the homeless
thing. spoke kindly to it, and on her
return brought some food and showed
it under the building This she contin-
ued to do for some weeks, until, being
obliged to leave the city, she asked a
friend to perform the humane act
With an intuition that seemed AL
most human, the cat, when near the
birth of her kittens, though she seemed
Scarcely more than a kitten herself,
crawled into a barn nearby. Perhaps
the lights in the house in front of the
barn suggested to her possibly wealth
and comfort, for after time, watching
her opportunity one by one she carried
her five kittens in her mouth into the
home, and laid them under a bed.
Probably she thought the owner world
be as proud of the little family as she
was, and would make them welcome
She had endured hardship, but, she
longed for something better for her
babies. "a r-q-ac gfr95
They were not discovered till the fol-
lowing morning when the womanA1n
the home, not poor person, indignant
at the newcomers, put cat and kit
tens into the back yard in a pouring
| rain. They.-Were soon drenche d.-~but
the heartless woman paid no attention
to the shivering creatures.
A little boy in a neighboring home
saw the poor things and went crying
to his mother, begging that she would
take them. What can we do with
Skip she asked.
81 will find a barrel and we will put
some warm things in it for them to
sleep on, and l will take care Of them
ALL" ass
The kittens, half dead with cold and
wet, were brought home by the boy,
and warmed and dried before the fire
They proved delight and comfort to
the only child and when they were
older, good homes were found for most
of them. The cat became the lads con-
slant companion. She followed him like
a dog, slept on his bed, and showed
gratitude and affection that seemed al,
most pitiful in it's intensity. She
mewed when he was absent, and buried
and rubbed against him when he re-
| turned ~ 35essss
BY and by the boy died. and the cat,
missing her playmate and benefaetor.
went from room to room Of the house
searching for the lost one, She cried so
pitifully adding afresh to the grief Of
the family that after a time she was
given to a friend, who lived near the
cemetery where the boy was buried.
! Later, when the parents visited the
grave, the cat followed and seemed to
Know why they were weeping and plaea
ing flowers upon it. Each day after this
the cat disappeared for some hours.
she was finally watched and was seen
| 10 lie down tba 1Rt
she had loved so devotedly in life. she
could not be coaxed away, and showed
anger when removed. Month after
month, in summer and winter sha
never failed to lie upon that precious
mound going back to her home after