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MORE, WILD’ CAT LORE. 
Editor RECREATION: 
Seeing H. Parrish’s article, “A Wild 
Cat’s Visit’ tempts me to write of some of 
our experiences with them while living 
in Arkansas. Being troubled with mice 
we got two half-grown kittens. One was 
white and yellow, very regularly marked 
and we called him Buff. The other was 
white and gray,.so we called him Tabby. 
Buff was a great hunter and soon cleaned 
out the mice, but Tabby was a lazy coward 
and wanted to stay in the house all the 
time. Finally, when they were grown 
some other cat came that way one night. 
There was a fight and Tabby rushed into 
the house scared out of his senses. I went 
out to help Buff but the other cat disappear- 
ed. In a few nights the cat returned, raised 
a big “row” and went off through a thicket, 
taking Tabby squalling with it. Presently, 
however, he returned badly scratched. We 
thought this strange for on all such occa- 
sions Tabby got in the house, if possible. 
I resolved to kill the cat, but it was al- 
ways too sharp for me. I saw it once. It 
was a wild cat. Buff would always stand 
his ground and chase it away, but it car- 
ried Tabby away several times, and once 
he did not get back for 3 days. Sometimes 
Tabby got back so weak he could scarcely 
walk. Once he was so badly bitten through 
one leg and foot it was several days before 
he could use it. At another time we found 
him the next day, hidden under a log, al- 
most scared to death. He looked as if he 
had been wallowing in dirty water. 
One day I caught a wild cat in a steel 
trap and brought it home dead. Tabby 
quickly disappeared under the house. Next 
day we mounted it and as the cats came in 
the house I set it down on the floor and 
moved it toward them. Tabby left in 
terror, but Buff bristled up and I removed 
it. I set it on the cupboard to dry and 
every time Tabby saw it he vanished and 
Buff looked as if he had been insulted. 
One night, about bedtime, Buff came in 
acting rather queerly. Great tears rolled 
down his face and he was slobbering at the 
mouth and trying to. rub something off his 
face. We were not long in learning what 
the matter was. A very distinct odor soon 
filled the room to overflowing. When the 
cat licked his paw to wash his fage that 
would gag him. He was the sicKtSt cat 
I ever saw. We could not shut him out 
of that room and there were only curtains 
to our bedroom. That “rabbit” was a 
skunk. C. E. Pleas. 
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