Puss in Boots (1)

Puss in Boots (1)

Once a miller left to his three sons a mill, a donkey, and a cat.

The eldest took the mill and second the donkey.

The yongest had only the cat.
The poor young fellow was quite unhappy at his lot.

" My brothers, " said he, " may do well by joining together. But after I have eaten my cat and made a muff of his skin, I must die of hunger. "

The cat, who heard all this, said to him:
" Do not be sad, my good master.
You need only give me a bag and have a pair of boots made for me so that I may scamper through the brambles. 
You shall see that you have not done so badly as you imagine. "

The cat's master had often seen him play clever tricks to catch rats and mice.
He would hang by his feet, or hide himself in the meal, and play dead.

So the lad did not lose all hope of being helped.

When the cat received the boots, he pulled them on with a grand air.
Then he put the bag about his neck, held its strings in his two forepaws, and went out to hunt for rabbits.

He put bran and lettuce into his bag and stretched out beside it as if he were dead.



He waited for young rabbits, who had not yet learned the tricks of the world, to crawl into the bag and eat what he had put there.

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