A CAT'S TALE.
EDTIOB OF TIER "Srmorirega.”] SIR,—In March 1905 the Rector of Whitburn(Dr. Moore-Ede, now Dean of Worcester) had a fine Persian cat, to which be and his family were much attached. The gardens of the Rectory and Whitburn Hall are contiguous, separated by a wall some seven or eight feet high. On Monday the 13th the eat disappeared, and though a reward was offered it produced no result. On Friday the 24th some gardeners at work in a corner of the Hall garden near the boundary wall heard a plaintive mewing, but thought nothing of it. On the following day, however (Saturday the 25th), on hearing it again at the same place they searched and eventually located the sound as proceeding from a certain sycamore tree, and on a ladder being applied it was found that the sound proceeded from its interior, which was hollow. Having plumbed the depth of the cavity, a hole was cut through the trunk from the outside, and at last at about six p.m. the cat was extricated, having been then enclosed without food for twelve days. It did not appear to be much the worse, for on its release it at' once tried to jump the dividing wall, and very nearly succeeded in doing so. It was fed at first with very great care in small quantities, and soon recovered.—I am,
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