Reading Notes: More English Fairy Tales, Part B
The K ing o' the Cats Story source: More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1894). One winter evening the sexton's wife was sitting by the fireside with her black cat. They waited and they waited but the master never came home. Finally, the master came rushing in and asked who tommy tildrum was. The master was terrified and told the story that he was visiting of his friends grave and then cats started to come near him. The cats looked exactly like the cat that they owned. During this story, old Tom, continued to meow and meow louder and louder. Finally, at the end of the story, old tom shrieked out that he was the king o the cats and rushed up the chimney and was never seen again. King 'O The Cats Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle Story source: More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1894). The fox and his wife had great strife, they never ate mustard and ate their meals wit