126 AFFECTION TO HOME IN CATS. 



a distance, to regain it. A medical gentleman 

 residing at Saxmundham in Suffolk, dined with 

 a friend in the village of Grundisburgh, about 

 twelve miles distant. Late in the evening he re- 

 turned home ; a young cat had been given to him 

 by his host, which was placed in a basket, and 

 deposited in the boot of the phaeton. This shy, 

 timid, little animal, for such is the cat, and one 

 quite unused to leave the precincts of its former 

 habitation, three days subsequent to the journey, 

 was found, wet, tired, and covered with dirt, at 

 the door of its former master's house at Grundis- 

 burgh ; having by some instinctive power, unac- 

 countable to us, found its way from one place to 

 another ; assuredly not being guided by the sense 

 of vision, or the recollection of places, for the 

 former journey had been performed in confine- 

 ment and utter darkness. 



