MANX CAT. ANGOLA CAT. 
A family had resided for some time on the southern side of Cuddie Bridge, and had in 
their house a favourite Cat. Previous to the term of Michaelmas, 1852, the family 
changed their residence, and took a house on the opposite side of Eddlestone Water, 
leaving behind them the Cat, which refused to stir from her accustomed haunts. Pussy, 
however, took a dislike to the new inhabitants of the house, and finding her way across 
the bowling-green, entered into possession of the mill, where she doubtless found plenty 
of game. Here she remained for some eighteen months, in spite of several attempts made 
by her former owner to recover his lost favourite. Several times she had been captured 
and brought to his house, and on one occasion a kitten was retained as a hostage. But 
every endeayour was vain, and leaving her offspring in the hand of her detainers, and 
resisting all temptations, she set off again for her quarters at the mill; in her eagerness to 
get back to the mill even fording the river, “taking Cuddie at the broad side,” as that 
action is popularly termed. 
On the eighteenth of October, 1853, at ten o’clock in the evening, as the former owner of 
the Cat was standing by the church porch, his attention was caught by the fugitive Cat, 
which was purring and rubbing herself against his legs as affectionately as in the olden 
