The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-02-25
R,skEp LIFE TO SAVE KITTEN.

Pittsburg Pa-The meow" of kitten which
had wandered away from the parental roof and
reached point from which it could not descend
developed hero the other evening. Like many
others in whose veins heroic blood flows, the man
refused to tell anything about himself
It was about o'clock. Half dozen persons
were passing the corner of milford and Brushton
avenues when there a "m-e-o-w. 1t not
the sound which generally awakens the sleeper
at dead of night and invites bootjack or a brick,
but vail of distress. Again it canc-'m-e o-w'
still more plaintive and a little louder than the
first.
1t came from somewhere in the air, and those
who heard it stopped and looked about. Half
dozen men were returning from q football game
dressed in the armor of the gridron, and behind
them came robust, swarthy fellow with dinner
basket OH his arm and payday look on his face
The attention of all was attracted By the second
cry and as they gazed upward one of the football
players remarked: "Why, it's that kitten. She's
been up there since early this morning" Then he
pointed toward the cornce which tops the belfry
of the Brushton public school.
He of the muscular form and contened look
gazed aloft, and there outlined against the gray
stones of the cornce blacy speck.
rs it a cat1' he asked in a tongue which
showed his Celtic origin.
Sure was the reply. "She's been up there all
day"
well, it's evident she can't get down, and II
she stays there she will die from hunger freeze"
was the response of the worElngman. He walked
to the front door and ratified it until the building
echoed but only the vibrations of the door
swered his efforts. Then he stepped back in. the
yard and again gazed upward. The little group
outside had stopped, and advanced into the
yard.
Hold me bucket" remarked the man to the one
who stood beside him. Walking to the side of the
building the fellow pulled himself to the edge of
the lower window He felt around for a moment
and started upward. To his trained hands and
feet each jutting piece and crevice in the rough
stone afforded him hand and foothold, and in a
few seconds he scaling the front of the build
ing as if it was a ladder. The little grOupouside
increased and he went higher they held their
breath, expecting every moment to see the climber
lost his hold and fall Five minutes passed and
he reached the cornice OF the roof.
steep slate roof still separated, him from the
belfry, the roof of which the cat was lying.
Carefully he made his way over this and reached
the coping at the bottom of the befry. Then he
reached upward. Although he had grown about
nine feet in the estimation of the crowd which
watched him, he was not tall enough to reach the
cornice of the belfry, and going to the post which
nearest to the point at which the cat was "
ing, he scrambled up it.
Then he put his hand out and grasped the
feline. There another meow" this time solf
and purrng. Then the kitten was placed in the
pocket of its rescuer and the descent was begun.
1t made in safety and when the young man
reached the ground he took the duadruped out, and
brushing its fur, remarked, "Now run home
From the National Humane Educator.