a wittle puuddy wuudy tat," as it belted the poor Cat on the head with
those great clubs humans have for paws.
So the Cat decided to stroll around the carpet with that complete
air of certainty cats have-as to its place in the higher scheme of things-till
it came across a tiny ball of rolled up newspaper and dived on it with a
hint of glee on its face. It scuttled about the floor, knocking the ball
around with its paws, till it ran head first into the wardrobe.
"Arghh!" Erwin shrieked inside the wardrobe," It's a Friendly Cat!"
and proceeded to pretend he was a vacuum cleaner, as he felt these were
more dangerous than shoeboxes.
The Cat sat on the mat, lashing its tail from side to side, as if
concerned with those more pressing problems of life; such as getting the
kids off to school, not being late for work and the cost of cat food these
days.
Suddenly it froze its tail, as it saw with some satisfaction, a small
though plump, white mouse scuttling across the floor, on the other side of
the room.
The Cat crouched itself down, its haunches tensed and its ears
pricked forward in a moment of inner tension, the whole body became
wired together with tendons and sinews waiting in hushed stillness for an
explosion of motion, with the exception of the tip of its tail which wiggled
with uncontrolable nervousness.
The mouse paused in its scuttling across the floor-sensing the
presence of its primordial enemy of the kitchen-and began twisting its
head from side to side in quick frantic movements, trying to discover
where the killer lay. The Cat, seeing this, let the faintest glimmer of a
smile pass across its face, before leaping through the air in wild
animalistic abandon, its two white tipped paws stretched out before it,
ready to snatch up the tasty little victim.
The mouse squealed and shrank, and then kept on shrinking or
rather disappearing, so before the Cat was even halfway in its pounce
across the room: the mouse had completely vanished.
The Cat skidded into the wall and looked about itself in
consternation for the missing mouse. Looked up, then down. Span round
and round on the spot and tried to catch its tail, vainly trying to locate
the now invisible mouse: a look of total befuddlement on its face.
-Well, I be-thought the Cat, and then it wasn't; as it too vanished
into thin air.
The instant the Cat did this, a small and rather unusual egg fell to
the carpet, popping into existence out of nowhere. Unusual in that it was
