Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Colonel Stuart Wortley, an English officer, tells the following story of a cat whose acquaintance he made during the Crimean war. After the French troops had taken the Malakoff, I was sent into it on duty, and found an unhappy cat bayoneted through the foot and pinned to the ground. I took her to my tent; she was carefully tended, and every morning taken to the doctor to have her wound attended to. Four or five days after I was too ill one morning to get up, and puss came and scratched at my tent door. I took no notice; but not long afterward the doctor came to say that mine was a wise cat, for she had come to his tent and sat quietly down for her foot to be examined and have its usual bandaging. She was watched to see what she would do the next morning; but she declined wasting her time scratching for me, and went straight to the doctor’s tent and scratched there. She was a very affectionate animal; and it was absurd to see her following me all over the camp with her tail carried stiff in the air.