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Life and Adventures of Poor Puss

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Duration:: 11m
Broadcast on:: 14 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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That's renterswearhouse.com or call 303-974-9444 to speak to a rent-to-state advisor today. How often do you compare yourself to others? It's easy to envy friends' lives on social media when you only see the good parts. But comparison is the thief of joy. Online therapy can help you focus on what you want instead of what others have, because your best life is always better than the idea of someone else's. Stop comparing and start living with BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com today to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelp, H-E-L-P-D-C-O-M. The Life and Adventures of Por Pus by Lucy Gray Por Pus, the subject of the following memoir, was the favorite companion of widow Wales and her little girl, Julia. She departed this life in her fifth year and was interred at the bottom of the garden last Thursday morning at half past 8 o'clock. The cause of her death proceeded from an internal disorder and shortness of breath. For a week or more, it was evident that her end was fast approaching as her strength was nearly gone and she was unable to perform her usual duties. The principal events in the life of Por Pus we shall now endeavor to relate. She was born at a farmhouse in the neighborhood of Isingwald. At a very early period in life, she became addicted to little petty thefts and misdemeanors such as getting into the dairy and lapping the cream from the bowls and stealing meat or anything that happened to be on the table as soon as ever she had a chance. For these and other acts of transgression, she frequently got a good whipping so that she was very shy of going into the dairy again. When she got a little older, she would frequently run about in the yard and play with old keeper and hide herself in his kennel, where she would remain concealed behind the door and when keeper wanted to come in, she would spring at him and scratch his nose, but keeper did not look such fun as this and so he fell quite vexed and bit a piece of her tail end which so frightened Por Pus that she dirst not come near him for a long time to come. The mother of Por Pus now thought it was high time that she should begin to fend for herself and so she took her into the barn on a mousing expedition. For a long time they watched the whole of a mouse, which appeared to be the residence of a whole family and at length the old mouse came out, followed by six little ones. The old cat seized the old mouse and killed three or four of the little ones. The young cat seized hold of one and wanted to play with it, but it slipped into the hole and she could see no more of it. The other little mouse was running away as fast as it could, but Pus sprang at it and gave it a nip which made it quiet enough. Pus soon became a good-handed killing mice, but her pride received a severe check. For one day a large rat was running across the barn and Pus, thinking it was a large mouse, ran to seize it, but the rat turned round and seized Pus by the nose and bit her severely so that she went away to her mother, mewing very piteously with her face all swelled and covered with blood. Pus ders'd not meddle with rats for a long time after this, but at length she got stronger and would kill them and many other such a berman. She had plenty of work, for there were many rats at the farmhouse. While pursuing a large rat one day, she set her foot into a trap which had been set to catch them, and though she was taken out very carefully by the farmer's daughters who were swinging in an old tree at the bottom of the orchard, it hurt her very much, and she was lame for many weeks after. Pus was now become a fine, healthy, good-looking cat, and a smart-looking tomcat in the neighborhood paid his court to miss Pus and asked her by kind looks and gentle actions if she would become his wife. Pus scolded and scratched for some time, but at length they made a match of it, and in due time Pus became a mother. She, however, notwithstanding all her skill in concealing them was doomed to see her small family torn from her and shared the same fate as her brothers and sisters had experienced on former occasions. As Pus was rambling in the fields sometime after her confinement, in pursuit of some birds, a number of gentlemen were coursing for hairs, and when the dogs saw Pus they immediately started after her. Pus ran as fast as she could, but the dogs ran much faster than she, and were just at her heels when she reached a tree, and saved her life by climbing up it. Pus was now safe from the dogs, and she remained in the tree for some time before she dersed come down again. On her return to the farmhouse three boys, who had been to school, were playing in the fields. Each boy had a large stick on his shoulder, and as soon as they saw Pus they ran after her. She again took refuge in a tree, but the boys threw stones at her and hit her so hard that she at length fell senseless to the ground. One of the boys seized poor Pus, and they were going to have some rare sport, as they said, by fastening the cat on a board and then launching it on the pond, after which they would set the dogs at her, and Pus could only keep them off by scratching their noses. Everything was in readiness, Pus was bound upon the board, and they were just going to sail it into the middle of the pond when the schoolmaster came past, and the boys were obliged, after receiving a good vlogging, to set poor Pus at Liberty. Shortly after these adventures, a friend paid a visit to the farmhouse, and being very much in want of a good cat, he took poor Pus with him to York. Pus's new mistress had a fine canary bird, which she was very fond of. One day the canary had got through the wires of his cage, and Pus, seeing it perched on the table, could not resist the temptation, but sprang at it, and seized it in her claws. The poor canary was almost eaten when the master came into the room, and seeing what was done, he took a whip, and would have killed poor Pus, but for little Mary, who begged him to spare her life. Pus was a good mouser, and soon cleared the house of them. She soon got acquainted with town life, such as climbing walls and houses, and jumping from roof to roof, either in gossiping with her neighbours, or in search of prey. Once while showing to some other cats how clever she was in jumping about, she fell into the street, and would have been killed, but for some fat sheep that were passing along the street at the time, and Pus had the good luck to fall upon the back of one of them, which had so much wool on it as not at all to hurt her. The next adventure and misfortune of poor Pus was to examine the contents of a pigeon coat in the neighbourhood. After climbing up a great height, she contrived to leap down on the board and got in among the pigeons, where she made sad havoc among the young birds, but the master, hearing a great noise, went up, and Pus escaped through the door, or she would have paid the penalty with her life. Pus would no doubt feel very miserable after this wholesale murder, which she had committed among the pigeons, for she had killed about a dozen of them. She had escaped many deaths, and as she was now getting old, she thought it high time to reform. Cats have always had a bad character for stealing, and too frequently have they merited it. The most degrading circumstance in the history of poor Pus is the following. Pus had jumped from the gateway into the street, where an Italian was playing an organ with a dressed up monkey by his side. The monkey at once ran after Pus, and seizing her by the tail bit off the greatest part of it. This misfortune she took so to heart that she never afterwards rallied. 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