“The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership”
A cat and mouse were friends and decided
to live together. They wanted to put some food away for the winter, so they
bought a pot of fat. For some reason, they didn’t want to keep it at home, so
they hid it under the altar in the church so nobody would steal it.
But soon the cat wanted to taste it, so he
told the mouse his cousin had had a son and had asked the cat to stand as
god-father. So the cat went to the church and licked the fat off the top of the
pot. When the mouse asked what they had named the kitten, he said, “Top-off.”
Soon the cat wanted another taste, so he
told the same lie and he ate half the pot. When the mouse again asked what they
named the kitten, he said, “Half-gone.”
Before long, the cat wanted more, so again
he told the same lie and ate the rest of the pot. He then told the mouse they
had named the kitten “All-gone.”
When winter came, they went to get their
pot of fat, and the mouse found out the cat had already eaten it. He then ate
the mouse.
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Wow, the cat ate the mouse. I didn’t see
that one coming.
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