![]() So next day she told Jack to take off his clothes and hide them under a big stone and dip himself into the river.Īnd while he was doing this she went up to the palace gate and said: "Miaou, miaou, miaou!"Īnd when the sentry came to the gate she said: "My Master, the Earl of Cattenborough, has been robbed of all he possessed, even of his clothes, and he is hiding in the bramble bush by the side of the river. ![]() "As for that," said Miss Puss, "I'll get you proper clothes if you do what I tell you and when you come to the palace I will see that you do not make any mistakes." "But I have no clothes, and they'll soon find out what I am when I talk." "Oh, you can be the Earl of Cattenborough if you like. So Puss went back to Jack and said to him: "The king desires to see the Earl of Cattenborough at his palace." Some time after the cat caught two partridges, and took one of them to the palace.Īnd when she called out, "Miaou," and presented it to the sentry, in the name of the Earl of Cattenborough, the sentry told her that the king wished to see the Earl at his palace. When the king heard this he told the sentry that if such a thing happened again he was to deliver a message asking the Earl to come and stop at the palace. So the king was told that the Earl of Cattenborough measured his gold in a corn measure. And a little while afterwards she took it back with the gold coin, which she had found, fixed in a crack in the corn measure. ![]() The sentry asked who wanted it.Īnd Puss said: "My Master, the Earl of Cattenborough." And she went up to the palace and asked the sentry if he would lend her a corn measure. ![]() Shortly after this Miss Puss found a gold coin rolling in the dirt. The king liked jugged hare very much and was glad to get such a fine present. Miss Puss gave him the hare with a bow and said: "Give this to the king with the compliments of the Earl of Cattenborough." The sentry at the gate came to see what was the matter. And when she came outside the palace gate she cried out, "Miaou." So the cat, after giving one to Jack, took the other and went with it to the king's palace. One day two hares happened to rush into the bag at the same time. Now how do you think the cat used to help John to live? She used to take a bag with a string around the top and place it with some cheese in the bushes, and when a hare or a partridge would come and try to get the piece of cheese - snap! Miss Puss would draw the string and there was the hare or partridge for Master Jack to eat. And Charles, as the eldest, took the mill, and Sam took the donkey and went off with it, and John was left with only the cat. ![]() Now after a time the miller's wife died, and, soon after, the miller, leaving only the mill, the donkey, and the cat. Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons, Charles, Sam, and John.Īnd every night when the servant went to bed he used to call out: "Good-night, missus good-night, master Good-night, Charles, Sam, John." The Master Cat or, Puss in Boots (Charles Perrault).Costantino and His Cat (Fiovanni Francesco Straparola).Links to three literary versions of this tale:.The Monkey and Juan Pusong Tambi-Tambi (Philippines).Count Martin of the Cat (Italy / Austria).The Palace That Stood on Golden Pillars (Sweden).Ashliman's folktexts, a library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology. Folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 545B ![]()
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