Show stories about cats the cat is a much maligned animal because it creeps softly after its prey it is called sly because it is domestic in its tastes and stays at home we say it is ungrateful and when it resents abuse with a scratching we maintain that it is treacherous yet cats have been known to die of grief when their mistress died and in many ways they exhibit intelligent traits for which we rarely give them credit A maine lad tells of alie remarkable sagacity of a pet cat which he owns the fe a great fondness for the flesh of birds and in order to make her quest for alie same successful employ a stratagem evidently understanding eliat birds like angleworms angle worms she collects a number and buries them in the ground she then hides near by and when the birds alight to secure their coveted morsel she springs from her concealment and pounces upon them many a bird thus falls a prey to shrewdness |