NIGS" THANK YOU."
By Bertha King.
I think Dolly had a very smart cat. But when I tell you what my black kittie did once, I guess you will say she is as smart as Dolly's. Papa was drawing hay to the barn, and he saw Nig jump off the mow. He climbed up, and found in one corner of the barn, almost covered up with Hay, three little kittens. He brought them to the house in a basket. My little brother and I made made them a house with two rooms — a dining room and a bed-room. We took the kittens out of the basket and put them in the bed-room. Nig would put her noHe to each one, then mew, run to the barn, jump upon the mow andjtry to get to her old nest ; but papa had covered it up with hay, bo she came back to her kittens agsin ; then back to the barn she went. This time she stopped at the corner of the barn, gave a jump and climbed right up the side. She hung there a minute, then fell dawn, but did not hurt herself much, for she climbed up again and mewed and mewed. Just then papa came with another load of hay, and he said he thought he heard a little kitten cry, Pretty Boon ho heard it again, Then papa got the
axe and pried a board off, climbed up the ladder and got it. Nig was'so pleased to get her kitten that she lay down and rolled and rubbed her head against papa's foot. Then she took the pussy in her mouth and carried it to the house and put it in the bedroom with the others. Now don't you think my pussy cat knows how to say " Thank you ?" —New York Tribune.
NIGS" THANK YOU."
Otago Witness, Issue 1476, 28 February 1880, Page 27
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