Reading Notes: More English Fairy Tales, Part B

The King 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 without a fork and knife. One night, fox went out into the clear night. The fox prayed to the moon to give him light because he had a long way to travel to his den. The fox arrived at a farmer's yard and scared the ducks and geese on the farm. The fox went to the farmers gate and the grey goose ran around the hay stack. The fox claimed that the goose was super fat and grabbed her up. He also grabbed a black duck and threw it on his back. Then, mother wiggle waggle hopped out of bed and exclaimed that the grey goose was gone. The old man you up and swore he would catch the fox in a trap. He ran around the town with the goose and then finally made it back to his den where he and his wife sat down together and ate and never had a better meal in their lives.

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