SOMETHING TO INTEREST YOU.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19125, 9 December 1933, Page 15 (Supplement)

SOMETHING TO INTEREST YOU.

Here is a story of a jolly cat xvho paid a visit to a sick person and cheered her up very much. It Is from an English children’s newspaper: A friend of the Children’s Newspaper was lately obliged to enter a nursing home to undergo an operation. The first thing she saw on stepping out of the lift was an exceptionally pretty, sleek tabby. And the first thing the tabby did at sjght of her was to come forward and rub itself, with long purrs, against her legs. A nurse passing by, introduced them to each other. “This is Bessie, the Sister’s cat," she said; “she has just had three lovely kittens.” “ Oli!” cried the newcomer delightedly. “ Won’t you show me your kittens?” Bessie’s eyes wandered searchingly up and down the passage; "but she had evidently mislaid her offspring for the moment, and meanwhile the patient was fetched by another nurse. Visiting Day. For the next three days she was too absorbed in her own affairs to remember either Bessie or hcrMtitlens; hut on the fourth day she was reminded in a manner she will not soon forget. It was flic first day that she was allowed to receive visitors, and she lay expectantly watching the door when a slight sound made her turn her eyes toward the window —just in time to see Bessie clambering over Ihe sill, Bessie with the most adorable black kitten in 'her mouth, which she proceeded to lay on the floor for inspection. Any mother must have been proud to show off such a baby; the question was: How had she known which room to enter? The patient is convinced not only that the visit was meant for her personally, because of the Interest she had shown, but also that Bessie, being a nursing home cal, knew the exact date when she would be able to see visitors, and had timed her coming accordingly I