Puss in Boots (3)

Puss in Boots (3)

The Marquis of Carabas did what the cat adviced, without knowing why.

While he was bathing, the king passed by.

The cat began to cry out as loudly as he could,
"Help ! Help ! My Lord Marquis of Carabas is drowning.

At this, the King put his head out of the coach window.

He saw that it was the cat who had so often brought him such good game.

He told his guard to run at once to the aid of the Marquis of Carabas.

While they were dragging the young man out of the river, the cat came up to the King's coach.

He told the King that as his master was washing in the river, some robbers had run off with his clothes.

The Marquis had cried, "Thieves! Thieves!"several times but no one had heard him.
(Actually, the clever cat himself had hidden the clothes under a great stone.)

The King commanded his men to run and fetch one of his best suits for the Marquis of Carabas.

The fine clothes suited the Marquis, for he was well built and very handsome.

The King's daughter took a secret liking for the Marquis.

When he cast two or three respectful and tender glances upon her, she fell deeply in love with him.

The King invited the Marquis of Carabas to come into the coach and take the air with them.

The cat, overjoyed to see his plan beginning to succeed, marched on ahead.

Meeting some farm workers who were mowing a meadow, he said to them,
" Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King that the meadow you are mowing belongs to My Lord marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as fine as mincemeat."



The King did not fail to ask the mowers to whom the meadow belonged.

"To My Lord Marquis of Carabas, " they answered.
The cat's threat had made them terribly afraid.

" You have a fine place, " said the King to the Marquis of Carabas.

" Yes, " replied the Marquis, " this is a meadow which always gives a good harvest. "

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