Remarkable Cat
Toby, tlio remarkable cat of Carlisle, lias gone on his last journey, this time not as a stowaway. Ho has been run over by an express train (states a correspondent). Catching mico was toa tame a pastime for him, and during tho last six years this black cat, whoso home was the refreshment-room , at Carlisle railway station had been on, more than fifty long journeys. Ho ■ travelled as a stowaway on fish trains and was known to the railwaymen at half tho stations iv Scotland. Whenever a spell of wanderlust camo over Toby he would board the first train that was going north and travol with it until he was discovered by the officials. Someone knowing his passion for travelling tied a label ori his collar with the words "Please return to Carlisle,", so that when this was read lie would be put on the next train for that town. Once Toby wont as far'as "Aberdeen, nearly 2;10 miles from-Carlisle. His instinct was always to go north. Not onco in his six yqars of straying by train did he take a train southward.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 9
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185Remarkable Cat Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 9
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