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A boston kitten s adventure A wonderful story la Is told of a kitten that bad had fallen into one ot of the ventilating ti flues in the wall of the large sub treasury apartment in the post office building of boston and had been incarcerated five days without food or water the flue referred to Is forty feet in depth from the ceiling level ot of the apartment notice of the kitten tens s misfortune m atas as brought to arch iteck bryant late on saturday afternoon the cries of the kitten could be faintly heard and mr bryant e first impulse vas mas to cut in through the marble mar ble casing of the apartment in which the flue was located but a suggestion being made that perhaps th the prisoner in its desperation might seize the end of a line weighted and of bulky shape at its lower end this experiment was tried strange to say the nearly starved creature almost instantly took fast hold with its claws when it was very carefully and slowly drawn safely up the entire height of forty feet and safely delivered no creature could be thinner than this liberated little kitten yet et with waria milk adamini at intervals rested atlon soon took place patience eo has a heart of stone |