A CAT AND DOG STORY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 28, 1873

A CAT AND DOG STORY.

“A tradesman, owner of a dog and cat, had been in the habit of letting his dog go to market and buy his own meat. The dog would bring the meat home and deposit it somewhere in the store, and when hungry would go and get it. The cat acquired a habit of stealing the meat, and the dog would lie down near it, watch for the thief, and when the cat came would drive her away. But at last he became tired of this business, carried the meat down cellar, and covered it up in the sand. One day the owner of the dog thought he would get the meat, bring it upstairs, and see what the dog would do. After taking a nap, the dog went down cellar in search of his meat, and commenced digging as usual, but there was no meat to be found. He laid himself down a minute, as if in thought, and then rushed up stairs, and, spying the cat, ‘went for her,’ and chased her all around the store, as closely as a police-officer in pursuit of a thief. Can a dog reason?”