Show A CAT DIES FOR A BIRD some sometime little ago lit in a quiet little corner way down doan lit in rue royale Ito yale I 1 thai chanced iced upon a queer little creole creature horn lie neighbors called Al amzelle if there web wa ever any name attached it in must have been in prehistoric f tr fr r now low there Is not even a sign upon the door of the little bakeshop where sells bread and cakes to the neighborhood very good bread st firtl I 1 cakes they are thoas loo as I 1 can call or recently I 1 have to found tani coy co y shop hop a very very comfortable resting pac place e after a mornings tramp in fit quest of news I 1 in this way I 1 have come coine to be pretty well acquainted with maezelle mamzelle Mam Aiani zelle anil and pierre Pierr etlie the cat and andje jeanne anne the bird pier re is a handsome black and white fellow ellow with a noble lead head and he and the little canary jeanne were ere about the same age manzelle mamzelle Mam Main zelle told me in tier filer pre pretty tty cre le lc patois how it afi s a lt two 0 pets pats were to each other oilier an my in 1 eli saw frequent evidences car kindly relationship in III a quiet cornea of tile lilola khop I 1 have seen pierrot lid jeanne taking their breakfast together from the saine plate arid and by and by when the lite cat would be dozing in lie he sunshine the bird would hop about blin or cuddle up mug und and comfortable between his outstretched p awa two when Ala inelle was as busy so oo that she could not keep a watchful eye on oil the tittle title birds safety she bile would eming the cage in the doorway while pierre would stretch hini belf on oil ahe floor beneath keeping guard over its his I 1 friend and ww betide the stray cat that wandered that way alerre was always on oil the alert for aquallo squal lo lb and if a cat castle came too near to suit hint film he would send bend jeanne hustling into tier her cage while he chased the offending feline off the lite street jut this very thing happened recently for the thousandth time probably but for the first time on record grief followed tile the move pierre pierrc and jeanne jo tune wr ware a taking their usual morning game lit in the sunshine of the lit to shop door when a big brindle stranger appeared or on the banquette without straight as a die jeanne was in her cage aud and pierre pierrc had gone in hot pursuit ot of the brindle brin dlo the chase chabe was vas a hard one and main zelle elle says pierre must have bee been gone ngone a long along time but site she wat was busy 6 serving erving customers and by and by noticed jeanne hopp hopping I 1 ng about tile the counter thinking of course that pi pierrc a are had returned she took no further n otice notice of the bird A little later however hearing a dreadful commotion out on the banquette she tan tali out to witness the sad little tragedy which 1 I too arrived just in time to see but too late to prevent taking addan tage of pierres protracted aben absence a in an ugly tortoiseshell front from the n next b block acir k str strolled 0 lied to the little shop lit in search ol of jeanc Jil dildine dine hopping al it unprotected lie he began leec at once no doubt mamzelle maezelle Mam zelle and I 1 arrived just in time to see the pounce on poor jeanne as the she tat sat lic perched relied on top of the swinging cage ano an bear her with it him to the pavement either of of us un could interpose the deed was done and then ina in a moment there came pierre fierre rushing round the corner and as quick as a flash he had taken in the with one fierce bound he sprang upon the tortoiseshell and swept poor jeanne from his clutches for a brief moment he sat guarding tier her but that moment long enough to tell he was too late then letting Mamzel Alain zelle lc take the little corpse front from auder his paw lie he swooped down upon the tortoiseshell it was as only for a little while but when the battle battie was a over both cats cat lay ny dead on the pavement pierre had laid down its ills life to avenge fernne t ft tit d all alit arid and the lite little mourns both herbets her pets new orleans Or luins correspondent Pei philadel ladel ehla Ti inca |