| Show OW j CAT AT TAKes R RATS RAT'S TS T'S HOME Devours rs Natural Enemies and Occupies pies Their Domicile A brood of rats made made their horn home last Jast s summer beneath an ash house inthe in the the rear of one of the houses in the theold theold old Dorchester district Near by beReath beneath be be- neath Reath the the piazza of another house a homeless cat reared a quartet of kit tens The people in the neighborhood fed the cat and her furry little ones but butth they y declined all advances and I remained wild as young lynxes The Th Theold Theold old cat speedily taught her family to become expert rat catchers catcher One of the kittens paid especial attention attention at at- to the ash house near at hand in the flooring of which the rats had gnawed large holes and were living happily One lOne by one that kitten depleted depleted depleted de de- the family of rodents until they had bad become entirely wiped out Then the Juvenile cat enlarged the passage they had made beneath the ash house until it was ample to accommodate her own proportions She gathered I together the nests they had used until until un un- til she had a large and comfortable bed and all through the present winter winter win win- ter she has made her home in this place appropriating the larder of the rats to her own uses She is as wild as ever and those vis vis- the ash house rarely see more than the tip of her nose or an eye as she occasionally comes to the mouth of the great rat hole Boston Boston Globe |
