Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-05
CATS MARATHON
ENDS IN 10 DAYS
Hikes From GaitIersburg to
Bethesda to Find Life
long PIaymates.

Kitten" or Ginger" or "Penny"-~or
/ whatever his name is--recently installed
/ in his town house at iT39 N street.
/ trading in the move his status as a
! country gentleman" for that of man
! about town" and his sleek plump sides
! for condition which his young master
| describes as pale and thin.
You see. the move Of Kitten" as
| he'd better be called for brevity's sake,
was not one of just moving vans.
/ scratched furniture, broken hearts and
| cold suppers, but one round after an
| other Of no suppers at all, sore feet and
| instructive navigation.
| In short. Kitten" Is one of those
| cats who came home. Time was when
| he had a perfectly good home with his
| folks, the Puseys-more particularly, g.
| vear-oid Charles and Il-year-old Lewis
Pnsey-out there on Delray avenue in
Bethesda. Nd
Kitten Rides i'm Basket.
Then suddenly the folks decided 10
move into town and being kindly folks
they figured that TO gring Kitten.
who had spent every one Of his 10
months of life out where there's plenty
of room and little traffic. into an
asphalt-bound city would be downright
cruel.
And so when Mr. Claggett, s. 9.
Claggett. the vegetable man. you know,
came around just before the proposed
| move. Kitten was placed in a COM
| Portable basket and handed to him. Mr..
| Claggett deposited the basket inside
| big box in his wagon, box so big that
| kitten" couldn't get even a glimpse oil
/ the road the jogging wagon followed.
/ In due time Kitten was supposed 10
/ be acouainting himself with his new
I home, the other side Of Gaithersburg,
ia long miles from Bethesda, and
/ Charles and Lewis Pussy we're settling
/ down in their new N street house.
! kitten" had MS own ideas about get
/ ting acquainted and he promptly dis
/ appeared.
Gone Ten Days.
| For 10 long days he was gone. utterly
| missing. and "ne vas such a big. hand
/ some fellow, too" they began to say in
/ post-mortem kindness Kitten" was
| gone all right. and going" too, for IN
/ 10 days he came limping and whining.
/ but deliberately enough. into the front
! gate Of the home Of Mrs. Charles Pussy.
/ the grandmother Of young Charles and
/, Lewis. adjoining the 'old home"
| Gone were the big tawny feline s
! bullying sides and graceful gait, and
there vas an ugly lameness in one paw
| and concave silhouette the cat had
never known Charles saw him.
"Awww Kitten how pale and thin
you are!" There was much milk spilled
/ at that iinping return. but far more
! Of ii was Tapped into hungry Jaws.
Thirteen miles In 10 days. Well. Of
course. YOU know, Charles says Kilt
| ten" visited his friends on the way or
he'd have made much better time than
that.
ANYWAY after that determination TO
be either at the old home or with the
folks-some people say cats are not at
tached to their masters, but merely to
the place they had lived" Kitten" was
brought to Washington Here he has
STAYED nov for a week. and 80 far
he has displayed no desire 10 hike out
to Bethesda, showing perhaps that cats
do love their folks after all
Nov, about his name, II any, Kit
ten" was given 10 the little Pussy boys
when he was nothing but kitten His
former owner had intended 10 name
him Penny" but Charles announced
he'd call him Ginger" Somehow he
never got round TO IT, and 80 the
handsome, tswny animal has Just been
Kitten.