Nine Lives Saved by a Cat.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue III, 20 July 1901, Page 107

Nine Lives Saved by a Cat.

The largest student boardinghouse in Ithaca was burned. It was generally occupied by Cornell students. Fortunately the University was closed for the spring vacation and only seven students were in the house at the time. Mrs Stillwell, with her mother, Mrs Wright, conducted the boardinghouse, and these two women barely escaped in their nightclothes. The fire was not discovered until the flames were well under way, and Mrs Stillwell said that she believed her life and the lives of all the occupants were saved by a favourite eat, which, went mewing up and down the halls. She awoke and tried to quiet the cat by speaking to it,, but it came into her room and pulled with its claws on the bedclothes until she got up to see what was the matter. It was then that she discovered that the house was in flames. She aroused the other occupants, who, luckily, were all sleeping on the two lovter floors. AH escaped without iifjpry. The cat purred and rubbed on tlye legs of the firemen after the occupants were out, as if it was proud of the work it had done.