Puss Meets With a New Kind of Creature and Has a Hard Time of It.
Farmer Egerton has a large cat named Scrapper which has long been the terror of all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood. One day lately he met his match in a large turtle. Discovering the queer creature taking a leisurely promenade in the meadow. Scrapper leaped on its back and clawed away at a lively rate. The turtle seemed to rather enjoy the performance, so Scrapper changed his tactics. He soon saw where the turtle’s head came out and he sat down to watch the spot, reports the New York Press.
Presently the turtle peeped out to see if his enemy was gone. Scrapper made a grab and missed. This was repeated three times, and then the turtle, keeping his head safely inside the shell, put out his feet and attempted to crawl away. Then Scrapper caught a foot of the turtle with his teeth, and the fight began in earnest. The turtle pulled and struggled, but finding itself being pulled away, put out its head and with a quick snap caught one of the cat’s hind feet in its viselike jaws. Scrapper pulled, bit and scratched, and doubtless would have called the fight off, but the turtle held on in triumph.
Finally Scrapper secured a good hold of the turtle’s head, and the turtle would have withdrawn if he could. But the victorious Scrapper was in a short time limping home with the turtle’s head in his mouth, as a trophy of his hard fought battle.
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