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Bringing Up Father
I'LL TURN THE OLD YARD INTO. THE GARDEN SPOT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
ISLAND WHERE THOUSANDS OF CATS RUN WILD
Tens of thousands of cats have been found to be living on Frigate, a low coral island, 300 miles north-east of Mauritius in the Corgados-Cora- jos group.
The cats are the progeny of a pair of domestic ani
mals that survived a shipwreck 80 years ago. The cats are now large and fierce, and in their tens of thousands live in burrows below ground in the interestices of the coral, emerging only at night or in search of food, chiefly fish, which they catch for themselves.
Guano seekers found that the cats have organised drives for catching fish. "They form a semi- circle on the dry reef reaching to the water's edge. Then just before low water they cross in, driving before them all, the fish that have remained behind în the many small pools and little channels. A drive may yield a ton weight or more of fish," said a surveyor on the isle.
some few yards away. This re- solved itself into an eruption, and the emergence of some 60 or 80 baby turtles, surely the trickiest little things ever hatched by the sun. The turtles blinked on seeing the light, but in a few seconds they shook themselves free of sand, and immediately made a beeline for the water, distant some 40 feet. But few of them lived to reach it, certainly not more than half a dozen. Out of a clear sky which previously had not contained a single bird; there came a rushing of a flight of Frigate birds, and in of wings, and the stabbing beaks
a moment the beach was a minta- ture shambles."
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SHOCK FOR SURVEYOR
Shocked and appalled, the sur-
EAT EACH OTHER
Sometimes a tidal wave washes a few hundreds of the cats away, though most of them in such a case win to the land. Occasion- ally bad weather keeps the fish in deep waters, and then, if the spell is prolonged, the cats fall upon each other; census returns would show a very marked fluctuation in the feline popula-veyor jumped into action with the only weapon he possessed, a This isle, with others in the Malacca, rotan, loaded with six group, is a resort of turtles, the inches of lead, but in less than 30 seconds all was over, and the beach female of the species landing in their dozens at a time to lay their as quiet as before with nothing to show what had happened save a eggs in the sand above high-water few corpses of the swiftest birds mark. Often they do not get back known to the world. Africopa. to the water, although the distance to safety may be less than 30 feet.
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CATS v. TURTLE
The cats come along in hordes
SHE KNEW
and cut off their retreat. Many
retreat. Many CHARLES DICKENS
hundreds attack each turtle. Each cat does its little bite or scratch
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before darting away, and soon the One of the few surviving people 700lb. reptile is hamstrung, though who knew Charles Dickens, Mrs. a few dozen of the cats may be Mary Ann Fooks, of Chatham,” has killed in the process, and as many just celebrated her ninety-fifth more die before the completion of year. Dickens often used to visit the feast.
Great Oakley Farm, near his home at Rochester, eighty years ago, when Mary Ann was a young maid- servant there.
"At Frigate," the surveyor said, "I witnessed another startling ex- hibition of the ruthless way of the wild. After a morning's surveying, "I always thought," she said, I sat in the shade of some "salt "that he looked as though his hair scrub to check up quietly on wanted cutting. Nine times out of angles.
ten he would be late for church and While doing so, I observed a come tip-toeing in to take a seat slight movement of the sand in the pew behind us.”
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