Cat Next Door

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)

Cat Next Door

For some time the mysterious disappearance of articles from her kitchen has been puzzling a woman in Exmouth, Devon. The culprit has now been discovered, and he is the Next-Door Cat. The first arctile to be missed was a cardigan, which had been placed in a box while tea was being laid. The next day the manager of the dairy asked her neighbour if it was her cardigan she had found in the dairy. Next a dish cloth was missed, and a very precious one which had been knitted by a six-year-old niece was used in its place and hung up on the plate-rack to dry. In the morning it was nowhere to be found and, remembering the incident of the cardigan, the owner visited the dairy, where she found the missing things. The dairy cat had carried them off, but his reason for doing so remains a mystery, especially as to visit the kitchen he had to climb a high brick wall.

—From the Children’s Newspaper, London.