A Cat That Goes Swimming.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 406, 28 September 1889, Page 3

A Cat That Goes Swimming.

A very ordinary-looking and mild-mannered cat is one of a swimming-bath. She is the mother of a promising family of three, and to the superficial observer appears no more, no less, than a well-behaved, sweet-tem-pered, motherly old tabby. But, as a matter of fact, this cat is rather an anomaly among cats. However she may have come by the peculiarity, this cat is an exceedingly good Bwimmer, and appears rather to like the water. She sits on the edge of the * crib ' at the bath tor hours, watching the little minnows which swim or are swept by the' current in through the latticed sides. When at length a luckless fish does come within range of her paws she reaches out like a flash, and with one swift sweep of her forepaw she lands him on the platform, where she devours her prey at her leisure. Or, if the fish remains just out of her reach, she will leap fairly into the water, seize the prize with her teeth, and swim to the Bide again, where she scrambles up and shakes herself after the fashion of dogs— From an. American paper.