A SELF-SUPPORTING CAT.

Mataura Ensign, 8 May 1912, Page 4

A SELF-SUPPORTING CAT.

1 A lady who owned a tortoise-shell cat jcalhd her grocer up one morning and 1 gave her usual economical order—an 'order for dried beans, hominy, yesterday's bread and so forth—and she con- . eluded with a request for one cent's worth of cat's meat. The grocer .sighed, for this order would have, to bo delivered throe miles away; but, as ho v, as entering the items in his order book the lady called him up again. "Mr Sands," she said, "oh, Mr Sands!" "Yes, madam!-" "Mr Sands, 1 want to cancel that order for cat's meat. The c.ii's just caught a bird," And Mr siiii). d.