30 AUGUST 1902, Page 19

A CAT STORY.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE -srscreros.1

Sra,—Have you any space for this, a fact ? An acquaintance and self in smoking-room ; time, near midnight ; drawing- room adjoining ; conversation, occult phenomena, " violin strings being twanged by unseen agency " ; sudden striking of a piano-note in drawing-room, clear and resonant. Our surprise; entry in drawing-room; turn on electric light; a cat jumps off piano-stool, and bolts through open window on to verandah. Our amusement; casual look at piano ; on music- stand an open song discovered : " Come, birdie, come, and