A LONG TUNNEL.

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 45, 16 November 1929, Page 30

A LONG TUNNEL.

■?'” *■' : ’ ,Y' Teddy the cat, aged less than one, was wandering by himself in search of adventure.' ’ At the corner of the first cross street he eame upon adventure suddenly. Somehow he failed to notice that the manhole lid was off,. 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 that he could not possibly, get back up the hole he set off to pee what be could see. . ' Mile after mile he wandered through the tunnel till, tired and hungry, he lay down to sleep. When he awoke he'trudged off again,'till at last ho saw ahead of him a faint gleam. He hurried toward it and found it was a gate through which the water emptied itself. . . , Teddy began to cry piteously, and his wailing attracted human attention. ' Some willing and very much surprised workmen had him out. He had arrived at the destructor works after, walking through' about teii miles of sewer. It was a sadder and wiser Teddy who was taken home in a workman’s basket. Let us hope that when he 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 sparrows that sit on roof tops, while they themselves stumble into manholes and wander in darkness.