A cat and a parrot lived in the same house, and were very kind and
friendly towards each other. One evening there was no one in the kitchen
except the bird and the cat. The cook had gone upstairs, leaving a bowl
full of dough to rise by the fire. Before long the cat rushed upstairs,
mewing and making signs for the cook to come down, then she jumped up
and seized her apron, and tried to pull her along. What could be the
matter, what had happened? Cook went downstairs to see, and there was
poor Polly shrieking, calling out, flapping her wings, and struggling
with all her might "up to her knees" in dough, and stuck quite fast. Of
course the cook lifted the parrot out, and cleaned the dough from her
legs, but if pussy had not been her kind friend, and run for help, she
would have sunk farther and farther into the dough, and perhaps in the
end would have been smothered.
(Blackboard.)
If a Cat can Help a Bird, surely Boys and Girls
should Help Each Other.