Show A KNOWING CAT ael allow herself to ba ila gl glorn away ay and always AlTa jrR came I 1 back tIVi that the eold saying faithful as a dog 11 is a slur on the cat kingdom isavell la well prove proved d by a little incident which wahhu o D miller ot of lyon street relates of a tiger cat the tabby in question was raised by air mr millers family and Is about 4 years old it has always been called gessic and is a groat great pet tessie has imi for the past two or three years been in the habit of waiting on the street for mr miller to come home to hi bis meals she will go two or three blocks to meet him and on hia his approach bound out from a fence as tickled as though she the had killed a dozen rats she always follows I 1 aws her roaster master homo home or rides back on his shoulder and stays by his tlde tide while he lie e fats ats his mea meal I 1 Th then enslie she will see sea him off again and return home tessie is als also very overy fond of theother tho other members of the family when mrs miller and her daughter are away from home tessie becomes lonesome and generally sets up such a crying that she is a nuisance to the neighborhood neigh boyhood bo for this reason 31 mr r miller 0 decided to get rid of her ho is agent of the starin transportation company and gave her to one of the teamsters atthe at the dock the man took her away over on the hill and kept her shut up for several era I 1 days after he thought tessie had become accustomed to td her new quarters quarter h he og aavo are her it little liberty and that evening I 1 ng she walked into mr millers office on the wharf tessla was delighted to find her old master again and never lost los t sight of him and when he heweet went home followed after A short time aeo ago mrs miller and her ter daughter laughter were again going away and another attempt was made to dispose of tessie this time mr miller gave her to a captain of one of the steamboats was put in lit a closed basket and taken to new york there she was allowed to wander about the nothing W was as heard of her by mr miller for a day or BO so she had bad been taken to new york on the monday night boat on the following friday morning mrs miller looked out in the yard back of D their bouse house and saw tessie sitting there ther e washing her face and getting ready apparently for her reception home mrs alm miller let the faithful little animal in and the latter almost went wild with joy when mr miller came home she was just as glad to see him and the latter made up his mind that tessie bad had come to his house to stay tessie is an unusually pretty tiger cat and one that would anywhere ere attract the attention of cat lovers she can do nearly a all 11 the tricks of a dog and Is just as its faithful to her master as the best of st bernards new haven register |