Re-told Tales: The King Of The Cats...

     This very old British folk tale implies that cats have a secret world that we know nothing about...

     One moonlit night, while going over the moors,, a man see a strange funeral.  A solemn line of cats are walking on their hind legs, carrying a small golden coffin encrusted with jewels.  As he watches the funeral procession passes slowly from his sight.  The man is so enchanted by what he has seen that once he is comfortably back home he pets his magnificent tabby cat, who at first, is snoozing.  He begins to tell him the story, even though he thinks his cat won't understand.

     The cat looks up at him with big, beautiful eyes and when the man finishes the tabby blinks once and once again and jumps to the floor.  He turns and looks lovingly at the person whose home he has shared for years and years.  But, he cries loudly, in perfect English, --- "Now, I AM the King Of The Cats!," and leaps out the window.  The man never sees his cat again.