On arrival in Gothenburg the captain told an official of the British Consulate he could not keep "Tawny"
board; and it-he let the cat ashore he would be heavily fined. He was asked to have the cat destroyed—if there was a bill the Consulate would honour it. Dropping a word about the matter on his return to the Consulate, the official who had been to see the Swedish captain immediately Tan up against something more forceful than a tawny ship's cat Two ladies working in the Consulate took control and decreed that in no circumstances must a cat thus saved be condemned to destruction.
Some frenzied telephoning stopped the execution order, and the ladies under took to guarantee the support of "Tawny" in quarantine at a shilling a day for the statutory four months, And the Consular dispatch to the
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