Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Tabby Swam Back to the Kittens. [ARTICLE]

Tabby Swam Back to the Kittens.

Albert Stetson, who has been superintending the unloading of the Washtenaw, is telling cat stories along the water front On the steamer Saturn there was for a long time a black cat that was the pet of the seamen. When the Saturn was last in port she went every day to the dock, where she had installed a litter of kittens among the freight. The Saturn left the dock a few days ago on the way to Liverpool, the mother on board. The kittens were on the wharf. The steamer got about 200 yards away from the pier when the mother realized that a parting was taking place, and that her kittens would be left to starve if she did not do something. So she sprang into the cold waters .and swam back to the wharf. She climbed up a pile, dripping wet, and dashed for her babies. The freight clerks took her and her kittens to the Washtenaw, where they have quarters in the captain’s cabin.—San Francisco Chronicle.