A Prize Story.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Prize Story.

IT ENTITLES ITS TELLER TO BE CALLED CHIEF LIAB. It is related that Mr. Sam M'Curdy, oi Louisville, Ky., was sitting 'neath the. shade of a tree talking to some Mends, when his attention was called to a hen .with a brood of young chickens and a large rat that had jast emerged from, its hole and was quietly regarding the young chickens with ths prosptct of a meal in view. As the rat came from the holo the house-cat caught sight of it. At the appearance of its ancient enemy, the cat, a Scotch terrier, quietly made for the., plaoe where the rat stood. At this moment ' a boy named Ancty Quaid came upoa the scene. The chickens were not cognizant of being watched by the rat, nor did the rat see the cat, nor the feline the dog, who had not noticed the coming of the boy. A little chick wandered too nigh and he was seized by the rat, which was in turn pounced upon by the cat, and the cat was caught in the mouth of the Sog. The rat would not cease his hold on the chicken, and the cat, in spite of the shaking she was getting from the dog, did not let go the rat. it seemed to the boy that the rat was about to escape after a time, and getting a stone he hurled it at the colony. The stone struck the dog right between the eyes. The terrier released his grip on the cat and fell over dead. It had breathed its last before the cat in turn let go the rat and turned over and died. The rat did not long aurrive the enemy, and by the side of the already dead chicken he laid himself down and- gave up the ghost. The owner of the dog wos so angry at his death that he is said to have come near making the story complete by killing the boy tjj%^ killed the dog tbat-shook the cat that caugbl the rat that bit the chicken in the yard bfl. Clay Street. — Louisville Courier Journal.