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CAT

When I first beheld this apparl-1 character, of, the mark of white flon for. It could acarealy regard hair, of which I have spoken, and

BRITISH AND FOREIGN WARSHIPS.

The following warships were in

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it as lasa-my wonder, and my ter which constituted, the sole visible Oswald, Osiris.. rør:warn, extreme. But at length difference between the strange- North Arm-Keppel, Witch, reflection: cams to my aid, The beast and the one, I had destroyed. Whitshed, Yerity, cat, I rememberd,, had been hangThe reader will remember that, South Wall-Wren, Cornflower. in a garden, adjacent to the house. this mark, although large, had been West Waft-Kont, Upon the alarm of airs, this garden originally very indefinite; but, by Veteran. had been immediately filled by the slow degrees-degrees nearly im crowd-by. some, one of whom the perceptible, and which for a long, animal must-have been cut from the time my reason struggled to rojggt tree and thrown; through an open as fanciful-it had, at length, as-marines. window, into my, chamber. This had samed a rigorous distinctness of probably been done with the view outline. It was show, the represen of aroitaing, me from, sleep. The tation of an object that I shuddor falling of other walls had compress to name--and, for this, above all, ed the victim of my cruelty into the

Bubstance of the freshly-spread plaster; the lime of which, with the flames, and the ammonia from the carcasa, had been accomplished the portraiture as I saw it:

loathed, and 'dreaded, and would

No.1 Buoy-Hormes. No. 2 Buoy.--Medway & Sub-

No. 3 Buoy-Suffolk. No G Bupy-Cornwall... U.S. river gunboat Mindanao.

The

have rid myself of the monster had HONG KONG TIDES.

dared-it was now, I say, the. image of a hideous of a ghastly, thing → of the Gallowalo The tinte, used is Standard, or, morp mournful and terrible engine of time of the meridian of 120 deg. E Although I thus readily account Horror and of Crime-of. Agony heights are referred to the datam of

00h is midnight,. 1£hrs. Is noch. ed-to my reason, if not altogether and of Death!

the largest scale Admiralty chart of to my conscience, for the startling

And now was I indeed, wretched the place and should be added to the fact just-detailed; it did not the beyond the, wretchedness of mere depths given on the chart unless-pre- lesa fall to make a deep impression humanity. And a brute beast ceded by an asterisk (*) when ther upon my, fancy. For months whoso fellow l'hadicontemptuously,

should be subtracted: from the depths. could not rid myself of the phan destroyed brute beast to work December 25 to 31, 1932: tasm-of the-cat; and; during this out for me for me, a man fashion- period, there came back into my fed in the image of the High God. spirit a half-sentiment, that seemed-80 much of insufferable woe! but was not, remorse. I went so Alas, neither by day, nor by night' far as to regret the loss of the ani- tnew I the blessing of rest any Sun. 25 .. mal, and, to look about.me, among more! During the former the the vile haunta, which I now babi-reature left me no moment alone,Men. tually frequented, for another pet and in the latter, I started hourly of the same species.

irom, dreams of 'unutterable fear to

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One night as. I. sat, half stupe find the hot breath of the thing Wed field, in a den of more than infamyapon my face, and its vast weight my attention was, suddenly drawn an incarnate nightmare that I Thurs: to some black obiect, reposing upon had no power to shake off-incum-

of the immense bent eternally upon my heart! the head of one hogsheads of gin, or of rum, which Beneath the pressure of torments Sat. constituted the chief furniture of such as these the feeble remnant the apartment. I had been looking bf the good within me succumbed. steadily at the top of this: hoge Evil thoughts became my sole in- head for some minutes, and what timates the darkest and most evil destroying them by fire. At now. caused me surprise, was the of thoughts. The moodiness of my another, I resolved to dig a grave fact that I had not sooner perdely-usual temper increased to hatred for it in the floor of the cellar. ed the object thereupon. I ap of all things and of all mankind; Again, I deliberated about, casting proached it, and touched it with my while from the sudden, frequent, it in the well In the yard-about hand. It was a black cat-avery and ungovernable outbursts of a packing it in a box, as if merchan large one-fully as large as Pluto.ury to which I now blindly aban-dise, with the usual arrangementa, and closely resembling him in ioned myself, my uncomplaining and so getting a porter to take it every respect bit one, Pluto had wife, alas, was the most usual and from the house. Finally I hit upon not a white hair upon any portion he meat patient of sufferers. what I considered a far better ex

I continued my caresses, and when I prepared to go home the animal evinced a disposition to ac company me.

of his body; but this.cat had a One day she accompanied me,pedient than either of these. I do large, although indefinite splotch of apon some household errand, into termined to wall it up in the cellar." white, covering nearly the wholeie collar ofthe old building which For a purpose such as this the region of the breast..

our poverty compelled us to in cellar was well adapted. Its walla Upon. my. touching him he imme-habit. The cat followed me down were loosely monstructed, and had diately arose, purred loudly, rubbed he steep stairs, and, nearly throw- lately been plastered throughout against my hand, and appeared deng me headlong, exasperated me with a rough plaster, which the lighted with my notice. This, then to madness. Uplifting an axe, and dampness of the atmosphere had was the very creature of which forgetting in my wrath the childish prevented from hardening. More was in search.

tread which had hitherto stayed over, in one of the walls was a ny hand, I almed a blow at the projection, caused by a false animal, which, of course, would chimney, or fireplace, that had ave provod instantly fatal had it been filled up and made to reaom- descended as I wished. But this ble the rest of the cellar. I made I permitted it to do so; occasion: blow was arrested by the hand of no doubt that I could readily dis- ally stooping and patting it as my wife. Goaded by the inter-place the bricks at this point, in- proceeded. When it reached the Ference into a rage more than de-sert the corpse, and wall the whole house it domesticated itself at once noniacal; I withdrew my arm from up as before,. so, that no eye could For my own part, I soon found a her grasp and buried the axe in her detect anything suspicious. dislike to it arising within me. This brain. She fell dead upon the spot And in this calculation: I was not; was just the raverse of what I had without a groan..

deceived. By means of a crowbar anticipated; but I know not how This hideous murder accomplish-I easily dislodged the bricks, and, or why it was its evident fonded, I set myself forthwith, and having carefully deposited the ness for myself rather disgusted with entire deliberation, to the body against the inner wall, I and annoyed me. By slow degrees task of concealing the body. 1propped it in that position, while these feelings of disgust and an-knew that I could not remove it with little trouble I relaid the noyance rose into the bitterness of from the house, either by day or whole structure as it originally] hatred. I avoided the creature; a night, without the risk of being stood. Having, procured mortar, certain sense of shame, and the re-observed by the neighbours, Many sand, and hair, with avery possible. membrance of my former deed of projects entered my mind. At one precaution, I prepared a plaster cruelty, preventing me from phy-period I thought of cutting the which, could not be distinguished sically abusing it. I did not, for corpse into minute fragments, and (Continued on Paga:15.)- pome weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill use it; but gradually. very gradually I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, Mon, 6th Feb. 1983 and to flee silently from its adious

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What added, no doubt, to my hatred of the beast was the dis- Lovery, on the morning after 1

9th Feb. brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes. This circumstance, however, only endeared," it to my

wife.

With my aversion to this cat, however, ite partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend." Wherever

4th Jan, I cat, it would, crouch beneath my chalt, or spring upon my knees, covering me with its loathsome 3rd Janezresses. At such times, although |I'longeil to destroy it with a blow, I was yet withheld from so sloing, partly by a-memory of my former. crime,; but, chiefly--let me confera it at enep-by-absoluto, dread (of the beasts

2nd Jan,"

9th Jan

This dread was not exactly - a dread of physical evil-andi'yet. I. should be at a loss how otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed

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to

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Kelon's cell, I am ashamed own that

with

[and]

animal spired

heightened by one Chimeras It would

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