Show SEVEN AGAINST ONE A in Iso which a nutter baxter street nt rat hold tn ISY Y sun sam at two yesterday morning stud said gray ray haired policeman Police iuan musgrave If I stood at the corner of bayard and baxter streets the tile eare streets ets were silent and the moon shone down on the tile aali barrels and broken down peddler wagons suddenly I heard a shrill squeak and I knew that a baxter street rat had been cornered by a it baxter street ca cat L now there are no other cats or rats 11 the policeman continued like those of baxter mulberry and mott streets A baxter daxter st cat is as thin as mg a knife blade and ia is accustomed to being thrown daily out of windows or from roo hooft pt if he has a tail it is either broken stumped or knotted ears and eyes are luxuries thai lew teny baxter street cats enjoy but for fighting making a racket and coming dois down n on your head they beat all so when I heard the squeak I knew there would be fun and und I stepped out to the curbstone to see where the rat was cornered backed into a corner of the gutter was an immense rat as big as my day stick and as tough mrs cat and two others were eyeing it close closely Y MM mra cat had bad given it the first tussle and been worsted the squeaking oque tique aking of the rat and the me paw of the cat brought reen foree for cements ments of the latter they came from all directions like sung coppers answering the atlary alarm rap there was cochins Co chens ebens yellow cat vv which has only one eye but is as wicked as a bulldog buil dog there was the italian sausage makers treat great tom toni there was dick eer cellar cat eat and warden flins gray they ther all came j jogging n along with their tails up ehg then e they sat down in a semicircle and watched the rat which looked at them defiantly from behind his ash heap then a big cat began rolling itself as cats do when they want you to P pat them purred like a muffled dr drum and jerked its tail among the ashes it was mrs one eyed cat suddenly it sprang on top of the rat the tile fur flew the rat squeaked the cat yelled with pain and then jumped back then dien every one of the seven cats had a tussle with the rat ral he beat all of them and each time sprang back to cover and und I could see him picking the cat hair out of his teeth As the cats drew off a little way musgrave went on the big rat bounded across the sidewalk and went into the water pipe that runs down in front odthe of the tenement known as noahs ark As he lie disappeared up the spout the cats gave a yowl and ran for the water spout mrs Mulli gaus cat cohens yellow cat dick knabel abes and warden finns cats put their noses at the end of spout but came caine away with blood ou on them hanz the grocer has a cat that he lie boasts will kill any rat in ill the world says I to myself ill keep that rat for fr hanzs cat so I picked up a brick and closed the mouth of ut the water waters spout out at in ze the morning I came back and found hanz fixing up his store good morning mr hanz says I wheres wh cres your cat vat do yo you vant mit my cat fees pees marck marek said hanz ive got a rat cornered in the water spout I said so bring out your cat eat well hanz got hia his big cabaud cat and brought him to the water spout I took away the brick and the rat put his head out hanzs cat made a spring at him the rat caught hanzs hanz a ca cats ts paw pair and hanzs cat ran hold your ur your ur cat ca tays says I to hanz then the fo I s set et re fire to some paper and shoved it up the spout all of a sudden the rat leaped out hanz let go his cat and the cat made far fer hanzs grocery the rat a little ahead As the rat disappeared in the cellar hanz yelled my dot rat vill all my eat cat up I and tho the most fun I ever had with a baxter street rat |