Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     An exciting contest was witnessed in the Court House yard, on Friday last, between a cat and some robins, that is worth chronicling. A robin had a nest under the north stoop of the Court House, and on Friday her brood of young robins made their first attempt to fly. As one poor, halffledged bird was laboriously flying near the ground, a tigerish-looking cat spied and gave chase. The bird flew as best it could, but the cat’s swift, stealthy steps gained upon it, and the fate of the bird seemed sealed. But its terrified cries brought relief, and just as the cat pounced upon and seized it in her mouth, half a dozen old robins lit on her back with a fury that was perfectly astonishing to her catship, and, dropping her prey, she incontinently turned tail and few across the yard, the relentless robins pursuing her with the greatest fury, and filling the air with their vengeful cries. Not until the cat took refuge in the adjoining building did the birds give up the chase and return to the young bird. The latter was unhurt, and the noise of the contest having drawn to the spot twenty-five or thirty other robins, it completed the day’s pratice under ample protection, and amid a clattering of bird tongues seldom heard in northern climes.-Geneseo Republican.