THE CHILD MIND
HOW A CAT WAS SAVED.
A humorous but touching example oij child logic comes from a village near Sopron, in Hungary. A priest owned an old cat which became caught in a trap. Though the animal was released., it could not recover from its injury, and appeared so miserable that the priest asked the schoolmaster to put it out of its pain
-with his gun. The night after the cat had been -•,: ;■*' killed," however, it howled under the window as usual; but next morning the schoolmaster insisted that he had dispatched it instantaneously. The ' mystery was solved by some children who had carried the cat from the priest's house to the schoolmaster. They declared that they were so sorry
for the cat's obvious sufferings that
they could not endure the thought of r \ it undergoing the further pain of being shot. A healthy cat, they argued among themselves, would not suffer so' much from being killed; so they allowed the sick cat to escape, and captured a sound one which they carried to the - unsuspecting schoolmaster in triumph.
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3195, 25 June 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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181THE CHILD MIND Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3195, 25 June 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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