CAT’S VIGIL AT GRAVE.
The story of a oat’s vigil at tho "rnvo of its 98-venrs-olrl master and friend, Preshendary Osmond Pobree, vicnr of Colwieh, a few miles from R.ugeley, was told to a newspaper correspondent. Mr 'Pobree was a treat loyer of animals, and after his death Tabby, tho grey and black-eat ef the vicarage' household, haunted tho newly prepared grave. Mrs Sarah •Saunders, of Great TTeywood, Oolwioh said: 'Hie day before the funeral T saw the cat in the churchyard staring at the grave, as if it
understood that it as for its old friend. My husband went to the animal, but it took .no notice. The verger said that he had seen the cat sitting motionless beside the grave for a long time, hut it Later abandoned its watch.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1929, Page 2
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