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Show Tabby's Shrewd Act. A queer natural history fairy tale comes from Scotland. At Haddington a cat gave birth to four kittens, and with her offspring off-spring took up her abode in the garden summer house. Three of the kittens were removed, and the lady of the house, on visiting vis-iting the summer house the next day, waa surprised to find that the fourth kitten had also disappeared. Search waa made, but to no avail. Several days passed, and the attention of the inmates wa attracted by the somewhat stealthy movements of the mother cat, when it was seen to go repeatedly re-peatedly to a thick arch of honeysuckle In the garden. Here the missing kitten was found safely ensconced in a blackbird's Best. A better retreat could not have been chosen, as the nest was fully seven feet from the ground and in the thickest part of the honeysuckle. Here the kitten remained re-mained apparently comfortable la ita uovej tuarter -Bt-on JonrnaL |