THE CAT IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE CAT IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE.

Teddy rlie cat, aged less than one. was wandering by himself in search of adventure. At the corner of the first cross street he came to he found adventure suddenly.

Somehow he failed to notice that the manhole lid was oil', and before he knew where he was he lay sprawling in the sewer, well below the level of the street. When he recovered from the shock, and saw he could not possibly got back Tip the hole, he set oil to see what he could see.

Mile after mile he wandered through the tunnel till, tired and hungry, lie lay down to sleep. When he awoke he trudged off again till at least ho saw ahead of him a faint gleam*. He hurried toward it and found it was a gate through -which the water emptied itself into a large pit. Teddy began to cry piteously, and his wailing attracted human attention. Some willing and very much surprised workmen had him out. ife had arrived at,the destructor works after walking through about ten miles of sewer.

It was a sadder and wiser Teddy who was taken home in a workman's basket. Let us hope that when lie is a bit older, and has kittens of his own, he will warn them not to go about the world with their eyes on the sparrow that sits on roof-tops, while they themselves stumble into manholes and wander in darkness.