What follows cannot be proven, but when it finally came to light, an old man swore that he owed his life to it. More specifically to a little cat named Jenny, who died a hundred years ago.
Jim Mulholland was a stoker at the end of the coal-powered ship era. At that time, rats were plentiful on large ships. On one particular ship, the scourge of those rats was Jenny, a little tortoiseshell cat.
Her green eyes could pick out a rodent in the deepest, darkest corner of a coal bin, and she had a friend named Jim who fed her scraps from his lunch pail near the boilers he stoked. Also, Jenny had a secret, known only to the two of them. But not even Jim knew the secret would save him.
Together, Jim and Jenny rode with the ship from the Belfast shipyards to Southampton for what would be their maiden voyage, and on that pre-trip, Jenny’s secret came to pass. She gave birth to four tiny kittens.
When they reached Southampton, Jenny became restless. As one day became two, became three, she grew more and more agitated. Finally, the day before they were to depart, Jenny took each of her kittens, one by one, off the ship, down the ramp, and into the town. Jim watched her all the way, until, with the last kitten in her mouth, she turned a corner and disappeared forever.
It seemed a small occurrence, but Jim couldn’t put it out of his mind. He believed firmly in omens, and this one gripped him. The next day, he stood on the dock and watched the ship, the largest in the world, sail away without him, taking the best job he’d ever had with it. But the scene heralded greater tragedy than a job loss.
Because the year was 1912, and the ship was the lead ship of three built to be the most luxurious in the world.
Her name was Titanic.
So it’s a cute story. But we’re people of science. We don’t believe in omens… do we?
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