Puss in Boots

this is a short story titled PUSS IN BOOTS. hope you'll enjoy it :)

the tale opened with the third and youngest son of a miller who received his inheritance which was a cat. The first son took the mill, the second took the donkey. The cat wanted to show to his master that it wasn’t as useless as he thought.

Master : my brothers can work together to make a good living, but what am I to do with a cat?

Cat : don’t worry Master, just give me a pair of boots and a cloak, and I’ll show you that your inheritance is not so bad.

The miller’s son had his doubts. But figuring he had nothing to lose, he gave the cat the boots and cloak.  After that, the cat caught a rabbit in the forest and presented it to the king as a gift from his master, the fictional Marquis of Carabas. The cat continued making gifts of game to the king for several months.

One day,the cat had already knew that the king and his daughter were traveling by coach along the riverside. then, the cat persuaded his master to remove his clothes and enter the river. The cat hid his master's clothes behind a tree. As the coach came closer, the cat began calling for help in great distress.

Cat : help! My Master, The Marquis of Carabas, is drowning! Help!

And, when the king stopped to investigate, the cat told him that his master, the Marquis, had been bathing in the river and his clothes had been robbed. The king ordered the young man to bring the Marquis from the river, and gave him some splendid suit of clothes, and let him to sit in the coach with the king’s daughter, who falled in love with him at once.

The cat ran ahead of the coach to tricked some peasants, so they would say that the land was belong to “the marquis” if the king asked them. The cat then arrived  at a castle which was inhabited by an ogre who was capable of transforming himself into a number of creatures. The ogre displayed his ability by changing into a lion, made the cat been frightened,  then it tricked the ogre into changing into a mouse.

Cat : I’ve heard that you can become a tiny animal, but I find it’s impossible to think of you as a mouse.

Ogre : impossible? Just watch

When the change was completed, the cat pounced the mouse, and ate it. The king arrived at the castle which before was belonged to the ogre, and, impressed with the bogus Marquis and his estate, then the king let him to married the princess. Thereafter, the cat enjoyed life as a great lord who ran after mice only for his own amusement.