The Book of Cats, 1 25 



supposed to have formed some new attachment. 

 About a fortnight, however, after her disappearance 

 from Glasgow, her well-known mew was heard at 

 the street-door of her Edinburgh mistress ; and 

 there she was with both her kittens, they in the 

 best state, but she, herself, very thin. It is clear 

 that she could carry only one kitten at a time. 

 The distance from Glasgow to Edinburgh is forty- 

 four miles, so that if she brought one kitten part of 

 the way, and then went back for the other, and thus 

 conveyed them alternately, she must have travelled 

 120 miles at least. She, also, must have journeyed 

 only during the night, and must have resorted to 

 many other precautions for the safety of her 

 young. 



Mr. Lord relates a story of a Cat living with 

 some friends of his in a house on an island. The 

 family changed residence, and the Cat was sewn 

 up in a hamper and taken round to the other side 

 of the island in a boat. The island was sparsely 

 inhabited, timbered, and there were but few paths 

 cut to traverse it by, and yet the Cat found its 

 way during the night back again to its old re- 

 sidence. There could have been no scent of 

 foot-prints, neither was there any road or path to 

 guide it. 



