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“A Tale of Tails” (book 1) Excerpt
This is a tale about two tails: a large tail, and a small tail. The large tail belonged to a very large cat named Purrkins, and the small tail belonged to very small cat named Pit-Pat.
The tale about the two tails takes place in a wealthy family’s house in Maine. The wealthy family, who’s name was Harrington, had gone for a visit to Mrs. Harrington’s aunt’s second cousin’s niece twice removed because of her birthday (that is, the aunt’s second cousin’s niece twice removed’s birthday) and had left the house unoccupied except for Purrkins and Pit-Pat. Of course the cats were not left to starve; a neighbor came over ever day to refill their food bowl and give them fresh water, and make sure that they hadn’t eaten the geranium on the windowsill, and brush them if they felt like being brushed. But besides that, Purrkins and Pit-Pat were pretty much left to themselves, which, if you are a cat, is extremely satisfactory.
On the third day after the Harringtons had left, Purrkins was lounging lazily on the rug where the sunshine was streaming in through the window, and Pit-Pat was playing with a ball of Mrs. Harrington’s best wool yarn (a forbidden pleasure, on normal days- but when the cat’s away the mice will play, will they not? Actually, in this case it is the other way around, with “Human” instead of “Cat”, and “Cat” instead of “Mice”. Oh, never mind). Suddenly Purrkins sat up, gave a huge yawn (one as only a very large cat like Purrkins could give) and said to Pit-Pat, “Pit-Paht,” -for Purrkins had a drawling voice- “Pit-Paht, do you think that perhaps we might go into the lahdah,”-(that is translated, “larder”, in case you were wondering)- “now that the Mistress is not home?”…”
This is an excerpt; you’ll have to buy the book to find out the rest of the story!