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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2660, 19 May 1908, Page 2

STILL. MORE DUMB. A lady saw in,a newspaper a paragraph to the effect that, in an effort to save his cat being run over by an omnibus, a little boy had been knocked down and seriously injured by the vehicle, and had been taken to the hospital. , The lady, who , was fond of cats, greatly admired the boy's affection for the "poor dumb animal." and wrote'to the hip[»pit.4l '."S^ n 1 presents and a, sun) of, money, "for the brave little sufferer." , . By return 6f jlbst came, abetter acknowledging receipt of Ihe money, and thank\ijg her for hfcr kindness, but .explaining.' that, the cat had* been the cauke'of all the woe' was even more "dumb than she imagined—in fact, it was the little boy's wooden tip-cat ! "