THE SENSE OF DIRECTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—The following, from Arthur Young's " Autobiography," edited by M. Betham-Edwards, p. 45, may interest your readers :—
"And here I may mention a singular instance of animal sagacity. The gentleman who gave up the house to me was a Mr. Farquharson, His wife had a favourite cat which, upon their removal, was put into a sack and carried away with the furniture from Essex to Yatesby Bridge in Hampshire. I was surprised in about five or six days to see poor puss again at Samford Hall ; nearly at the same time a letter was receivei from Mrs. Far- quharson lamenting her loss, but doubting the possibility of the cat having returned to its original home. The circumstance is astonishing and shows an instinct almost incredible, for the animal must have travelled seventy miles and threaded the metropolis."
Arthur Young had removed from Bradfield to Samford Hall, in Essex, "a speculation" which "turned out a bitter disap-
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