The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat

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than their special treat at Christmas the barn cats never ate human food From their very first taste they longed only for raw mouse bone-in with the fur still on it Next Mother Tat lined up her kittens in the hay She caught a mouse then opened the trap of her jaws Off it shot the kittens bounding after it Pudding too though he was always in the rear following his brothers and sisters One kitten got hold of the tail but the mouse jerked free They swarmed it Very good Mother Tat cried Well done The mouse escaped Mother Tat caught it again and divided it up as a reward for her five talented children After a few days of this Mother Tat began to tutor each of her kittens separately All of them progressed more or less as well as her previous litters Except for Pudding Without his brothers and sisters to follow Pudding used a different method He couldn’t rely on his eyes Instead when Mother Tat released the mouse he sat and listened