The Cat and The Mouse - A Fable

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Munda
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0 posted 2004-01-24 06:36 AM

With apologies to Alicat for borrowing his name without permission.

The Cat and The Mouse

The cat was sound asleep on his pillow. At least, he looked sound asleep. We all know cats never really sleep, unless it's the sleep of healing after a terrible fight and even then it's questionable how much asleep they really are.
Everyday the mouse watched the cat sleeping on his pillow, waiting for a safe moment to pass on his way to the goodies waiting for him and his family. At first cautious, since mice know all too well cats are deadly in every other way but asleep, but in the long run he got more confident and even composed a little song he sarcastically sang daily for Mr. Alicat: "Lazy, fat, old cat, patron of this house. You're nothing but a brat and you'll never catch this mouse!"

However, Mr. Alicat lazily opened an eye one day and whispered: "Soon Mickey, soon." Of course this put Mickey into a state of the highest alert, but since nothing other happened then Mr. Alicat opening one eye daily and whispering "Soon", Mickey felt most confident after a couple of weeks and continued his daily routine, singing even a bit louder than before... "you'll never catch this mouse." He even added a line: "You're nothing but a loon, you'll never catch me soon!"

As could be expected, Mr. Alicat struck unexpectedly one unfortunate day and held Mickey swinging upside down by his tail between his sharp claws. Mickey, being utterly surprised by the attack after all this time, and even more by still being alive, couldn't think of anything else to say then: "But you didn't catch me soon!", to which Mr. Alicat replied: "My soon is always much sooner then you hoped for and to others undoubtedly never soon enough. Remember... one word may mean one thing to one person, but something totally different to an other!" and then he let him go, because it's always much nicer to read a story with a happy end.

Marge Tindal

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1 posted 2004-01-24 11:59 AM

Munda~
This is absolutely ADORABLE~
Saving it to read to a little granddaughter in the years to come~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

noles1@totcon.com

Charisma

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2 posted 2004-01-24 04:18 PM

awwwwww Munda, glad I decided to peek in this room, so I was able to read your story...it made me smile, and not only because it has a happy ending. Echoing Marge......absolutely Adorable

Dr.Moose1
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3 posted 2004-01-24 09:49 PM

Munda,
A tale of two tails to regale without fail,
of mice and cats, don't get better than that!
Good to hear from you.
Doc

Munda
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4 posted 2004-01-25 03:29 PM

Thank you for your lovely comment Marge.

Charisma - It's always a pleasure to see you. Thanks for your kind words.

Doc, good to see you too and thank you!

Dark Angel
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5 posted 2004-01-25 04:34 PM

I love the cheekiness in this fable heh.. enjoyed muchly thank you.

Maree

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

Alicat
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Coastal Texas

6 posted 2004-01-25 08:03 PM

ROFL....using my name was quite alright for this delightful tail.

Endlessecho
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I live within myself

7 posted 2004-01-26 07:59 AM

Ohhh.. This is so cute!

I loved it.

Bridget Shenachie
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8 posted 2004-01-26 03:06 PM

Loved your fable, Munda. And I enjoyed the happy ending. Getting ready to post a fable with a miserable end. Maybe it need's rewritten but time is getting short.

Shenachie

Munda
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9 posted 2004-01-28 05:24 PM

Thanks everybody for taking the time to read and your lovely replies.

Sunshine

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10 posted 2004-02-02 02:03 PM

Munda, smiling at this just as I did the first time I read it. Right after Nan told me we were doing fables, a couple of weeks ago, I came up with my little idea, and before I posted mine, saw yours.

I like the idea that we both went for "soon".

But I hope you know I didn't mean to appear that I was copying your idea. LOL...Not when yours is so succinct and much more of a fable than my ramble. Well done dear. You continue to delight me with your grasp of the English language!

Nan

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11 posted 2004-02-16 08:06 AM

Well, I surely like happy endings... and this is very cute - just picturing Alicat snoozing on the porch... as Munda Mouse snookers on past him...

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