A Happy Family.
A wonderful story about a cat is told by ttie St. liOixUi * Globe Democrat.' This cat had a litter of three kittens. , Not being satisfied with thiB 1 small family, she went out and brought in two young rabbits and adopted them as part of her family,, and nursed them with as much care as she ;did her own young. A,few days later she captured three young coons and added them to her family. At last accounts the novel family of one mother cat, three kittens, two rabbits, and three yoang coons Were Hying in perfect harmony, all in one nest.
1 —; — •■'.'. — i ■ '.. . , ;: A curate tickled his congregation one Sunday morning by saying. '? Here endeth the first innings," iafter reading lesson No. 1. After the service the clerk told him'of the circumstance, to which the superior ejaculated : "Didl? Well, I was thinking about that fine catoh I made yesterday.'''■ " Teacher: "Where do'the Arabs live?'' Boy: "In the desert." Teacher: "What do they call those, nice pious men who flee to the desert ?" Boy : " Deserters."
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Evening Star, Issue 7331, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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177A Happy Family. Evening Star, Issue 7331, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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