Show TRUTHFUL TALE ALE 1 OF A GAUNT GRAY GRA CAT AND KITTEN THAT KNEW NOT WHERE WHERE IT WAS WASAT AT A gaunt gray cat Wednesday morning ran raft along alone the edge tl ge of tOe the roof too over the Vienna kitchen the edge next to the Progress block There was waa an anxious look in her eyes and the dampness s rh I lowing the thunderstorm had taken the curl out of her whiskers She dp d a with them and y I she eare care she ahe said geld Id just like 1111 that Net Neta aggressively a not with Intent to disturb the peace but softly mo iS 3 s a t mother comforting a child hild All AJl day Wed Wednesday day ne the gaunt gray eat cat at ran up u and down the roof root edge all day she spoke at intervals apparently from her heart The he I anxious look deepened in her eyes eje Hav ing no hands to wring she ahe he wrung her tail tall tallA A man saw her lier from a Progress s build Ing lag window reckoned that she was about to throw a fit and antI then promptly forgot argot all aU about her Yesterday morning tile the gaunt gray cat still trod the th root roof edge still wore the troubled look The note of ot anxiety in hex her voice had deepened It was wall evident now that something had stirred her soul to its Ra very depths Th T e man who had seen her the tha morning before wondered a minute and then U I betas being lunch time again agatA forgot her At X 1 in the afternoon he was re reminded reminded reminded minded of her presence pre ence by her voice yoke She was speaking at the rate of ot eight a H This time th van iian was stirred to action He looked ou est of or orthe the window and aud saw t at once Olk the occasion occasion on for the gaunt punt gray cats distress dl A space apace of ut about eighteen irdle stretches between the wall of the Vienna kitchen and the wall of the block The Thu result is a it crevasse something I 1 like Ilk eighteen feet deep At east end of the a wall closes t 1 At west ivest end is a similar wall At the th but bot torn tom feebly In the lift that has gs accumulated during the scotia that have passed since the walls were built was a kitten It was talking baby talk tik back to its mother The man was stirred to action He went down to the Vienna and hailed thence Uw t proprietor George Morgan a fat ft and healthy and withal a aman aman man whose heart te is sender Would George aid in throwing out the life line he Would he would More he would impress his yard man into the service With pant and groan nod nd yo heave ho lie the boniface climbed the stairway lead tug ing to the kitchen roof A trusty life line was coiled In his hand hami one end thereof thereat of the life Itt line being attached to a basket In which lay a succulent morsel off the neck rids ThU to sustain the be infant and tempt it into the basket Alas the basket would no more go down don the crevasse than the boniface could press through the eye eve of an axe Then a lard bucket was secured and at the word from his trusty commander the yard man lowered away The rue kitten seemed interested only in finding the point farthest from the bucket though Morgans raucous Kitty kitty kitty was vaa enough to melt the stoutest heart A long scantling was next requisitioned It was lowered into the tha Chasm and permitted to rest roat there the sky end loanIng leaning against the roof the whole at an angle of some seventy de do degrees doie grees The ie kitten having partaken of re refreshments at ray my expense will climb out our outon on the scantling after we have departed said Morgan We S will return anon and se see if It hiss nas dumb The man who started the trouble re ye returned turned to his work Morgan to his pleas urea The gaunt gray cat a look of ut utter ter hopelessness her features stirred not She was waiting for the worst Time Tinie r man maii chanced to look from a window on the Progress I block down laId into Ui tJi chasm He beheld there ther a small weak cat painfully creep ing up ep the scantling The gaunt gray mother cat hung about the edge of the chasm but did not hot lend land H a hand band for that i she had no hand to lend Yet she tool took the warmest sort of Interest in the slow scent ascent of the small weak cat Now and then she sounded H a plaintive inquiring MM w but t small w k c t was wast waste t te o busy hosy to t talk beuk At Intervals thin the weak tat at 54 for rest and dur lur duri tg MPh i pease pause 1 lb This wits was too toor I hILer r thi ii human It mall p At risk of life liberty and the pursuit of happi happiness happiness ness he swung from his window to the roof of tile the Vienna reached down in the chasm and triumphantly the weak small cat to safety Was the small eat cat grateful It manifest gratitude Fizz stated the small weak cat as asit asit it burled buried its claws in the wrist of Its rescuer Seat Scat you devil cried the res ros rescuer cuer who hurled the small weak cat far farand farand and wide over the chimney And did the small weak cat hasten to tile the itching aching bosom of the gaunt gray mother cat Not enough to notice The small weak cat suddenly became lithe and active hurried to concealment under a box on the roof while the mother cat ct posted full speed in another direction The rescuer climbed back through his window into hits his office With his going the eats cats began to gather Looking out a short time later the rescuer behold beheld an interested group of cats prominent among them being the gaunt gray mother eat cat that clustered around the erstwhile small weak cat to listen to its thrilling story stocy of Saved by br a Scantling yr or Life Between the Brinks |